Mine detail: Bully Hill

Previously called 'Rising StarCopper City'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.80125, -122.19689

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc
Other material: Anhydrite, Azurite, Barite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Covellite, Cuprite, Galena, Gold, Gypsum, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite, Quartz, Silver, Sphalerite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite, Vermiculite
Discovery year: 1862

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1877

Geology

References

MRDSW025217
MAS60890063
DEP10262643
Reference{Deposit:: CALIF JOUR MINES & GEOL V35 NO 2 APR 1939 PP 174-5}{Deposit:: ALSO SECTS 16 21 & 22}{Deposit:: BULLY HILL MINE:IN, CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY,}{Deposit:: VOLUME 35,P.174-175.}{Deposit:: ALBERS AND ROBERTSON,1961,GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF EAST}{Deposit:: SHASTA COPPER ZINC DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA:U.S.G.S.PROFESSIONAL}{Deposit:: PAPER 338.}{Deposit:: COPPER IN CALIFORNIA;CALIF. DIVISION OF MINES BULL. 144, P.}{Deposit:: 78, 1948}{Deposit:: ESTIMATED RESERVES,BULLY HILL MINE,COMPANY DATA,1976-WESTERN}{Deposit:: MINES INC.,CANADA}
ReporterWetzel, Nicholas