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Blue Jacket Mine, Carrville, Carrville District, Klamath Mts, Trinity Co., California, USA

Latitude: 41°4'2"N
Longitude: 122°42'25"W

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A former lode Au mine located in secs. 17 & 18, T37N, R7W, MDM, 0.4 km (1,300 feet) NW of Carrville, along Carr Gulch, on National Forest land. MRDS database stated accuracy for this location is 1,000 meters.

Mineralization is hosted in granodiorite, aplite, serpentinite and lamprophyre. The ore body strikes N40E and dips 40SE. Controls for ore emplacement included small shear zones. Alteration is local (hydrothermal). Gold occurs in the free state. Local rocks include Carboniferous marine rocks, unit 4 (Eastern Klamath Mountains).

Workings include underground openings with an overall depth of 97.54 meters. They are comprised of a 820 foot adit, drifts, raises and stopes.

No production record was found. The ore was low-grade and free-milling.

Mineral List

Gold

Quartz

2 entries listed. 2 valid minerals.

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References

MacDonald, Donald Francis (1913), Notes on the gold lodes of the Carrville district, Trinity County, California: USGS Bulletin 530-D: 21-23.

Brown, G. Chester (1913), The Counties of Shasta, Siskiyou and Trinity: California Journal of Mines and Geology (Report 14): 14(4): 885.

Averill, Charles V. (1931), Preliminary report on economic geology of the Shasta quadrangle: California Journal of Mines and Geology, California Division Mines (Report 27): 27(1): 29.

USGS (2005), Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS): U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, loc. file ID #10086640 & 10263296.

U.S. Bureau of Mines, Minerals Availability System (MAS) file ID #0061050709.

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