Mine detail: Valley View

Previously called 'Bonanza?Whiskey DiggingsHarpending Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.97129, -121.24774

Resource(M)

Tertiary:	Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc
Other material:	Azurite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Cuprite, Pyrite, Pyroxene, Pyrrhotite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1852

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1912

Geology

References

MRDS	M012042
MAS	60610080
DEP	10140086
Reference	{Deposit:: REF 1 LYMAN MOORE DATA FROM ORIGINAL STUDY IN 1960.}{Deposit:: ,5-SACRAMENTO,CJMG V 32 NO 1,1936,P 40;V 53 NOS 3 & 4,P 593-}{Deposit:: REF 2 CALIF. DIV. OF MINES, COPPER IN CALIF.,BULL. 144, CALI}{Deposit:: NAT. RES.,1948.INCLUDE PLATES AND REFERENCES.}{Deposit:: RESOURCES OF CALIF.,15TH REPT.OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST,P.32}
Reporter	Lewis, J.D.