USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · Trinity County
Hale Creek Mine
Unconfirmed Copper Underground
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- Trinity
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Copper
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Mn mine located in the NW¼ sec. 23, T1S, R6E, HM, 2.2 km (ca. 7,218 ft) ESE of Mad River Rock, along Hale Creek, on Mad River Ridge, on National Forest land (located claim). Discovered and first produced in 1941. MRDS database stated accuracy …
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Ankerite
- Ansermetite
- Baryte
- Bementite
- Bornite
- Brochantite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
View all 26 reported minerals
- Ankerite
- Ansermetite
- Baryte
- Bementite
- Bornite
- Brochantite
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chrysocolla
- commodity:Manganese
- Digenite
- Hausmannite
- Inesite
- Jarosite
- Julgoldite-(Fe2+)
- Malachite
- Native Copper
- Native Sulphur
- Neotocite
- Phillipsite Subgroup
- Quartz
- Rhodochrosite
- Tamaite
- Todorokite
- Wellsite
- Witherite
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: 6438
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (26)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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