USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · Mariposa County
Blue Moon
Unconfirmed Zinc Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- Mariposa
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Zinc
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Blue Cloud, Red Cloud, Percupine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Merced Falls , 1962
- Shaft : Merced Falls , 1962
View individual source records (4)
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. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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
Operators / organizations
- Hecla Mining Co. · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Barite
- Calcite
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
View all 13 reported minerals
- Barite
- Calcite
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Malachite
- Pyrite
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite
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 (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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