Mine detail: Blue Tent District

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Location

Lat / long:

39.30759, -120.96803

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Platinum, Silver
Ore:	Gold
Gangue:	Quartz, Magnetite, Ilmenite, Zircon, Pyrite, Amphibole, Epidote, Chlorite, Siderite
Orebody form:	Irregular
Discovery year:	1850

Production

Operation type:	Surface
Deposit type:	Stream placer
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host type:	Sand and Gravel
Structure:	Wolf Creek Fault Zone, Ramshorn Fault, Melones Fault Zone
Tectonic:	Magmatic arc

References

DEP	10310592
Reference	{Deposit:: Clark, W.B., 1970, Gold districts of California: California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin 193, p. 31}{Deposit:: Jarman, A, 1927, Sailor Flat and Blue Tent: California Mining Bureau Report 23, p. 110-111.}{Deposit:: Lindgren, W., 1900, Colfax folio: U.S. Geological Survey Atlas of the U.S., folio 66, 10 p.}{Deposit:: Lindgren, W., 1911, Tertiary gravels of the Sierra Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 73, p. 143.}{Deposit:: Saucedo, G. J. and Wagner, D. L., 1992, Geologic map of the Chico Quadrangle: California Division of Mines and Geology Regional Map Series Map No. 7A, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Yeend, W.E., 1974, Gold-bearing gravel of the ancestral Yuba River, Sierra Nevada, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 772, 44 p.}
Reporter	Downey, Cameron (Higgins, Chris, T.), Schruben, Paul G.