USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · Amador County
Belden
Unconfirmed Gold Underground 6 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- Amador
- Mining district
- East Belt
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Au-Zn-Fe-Pb mine located in the NW¼ sec. 26, T7N, R13E, MDM, 2.3 km (1.4 miles) SSE of Barton (about 1 mile SE of Buckhorn Lodge; near Pine Grove), on private land. Discovered in 1855. Operated intermittently from 1876 to 1948. Operated by Bel…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 6 shaft symbols
- Shaft : West Point , 1948
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Belden Amador Mines, Inc. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Galena
- Gold
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Sphalerite
- Galena
- Native Gold
View all 12 reported minerals
- Quartz
- Galena
- Gold
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Sphalerite
- Galena
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Sphalerite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 73488
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (6)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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