USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · Calaveras County
Carson Hill Mines
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- Calaveras
- Mining district
- Carson Hill
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Morgan Mine, Melones Mine, Finnegan Mine, Calaveras Mine, Reserve Mine, Stanislaus Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former populated place. One of the most productive mining areas in Calaveras County located in secs. 13, 14 & 24, T2N, R13E, MDM. Carson Hill is on the Mother Lode Belt in SW Calaveras County. The district consists of a part of the Mother Lode…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Ankerite
- Bornite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Molybdenite
- Petzite
- Quartz
- Sericite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Ankerite
- Bornite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Molybdenite
- Petzite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Tetrahedrite
- Calaverite
- Gold
- Hessite
- Melonite
- Petzite
- Pyrite
- Sylvanite
- Altaite
- Ankerite
- Antigorite
- Calaverite
- Clinochlore
- Coloradoite
- Dolomite
- Goethite
- Hessite
- Hornblende Root Name Group
- Mariposite
- Melonite
- Millerite
- Molybdenite
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Native Tellurium
- Petzite
- Phengite
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Rutile
- Sylvanite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 23945
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (24)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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