USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · Trinity County
Dorleska
Unconfirmed Gold Underground 5 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- Trinity
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Au-Ag-Pb mine located in the SE¼ sec. 17 & in the NE¼NE¼ sec. 20, T37N, R9W, MDM, 0.7 km (2,100 feet) ESE of Preachers Peak (1.8 miles NW of Union Lake), on Bureau of Land Management land (Trinity Alps Wilderness). Discovered 1897-1898. First …
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 adit symbols
- Adit : Coffee Creek , 1955
- Adit : Coffee Creek , 1955
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- 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
- Galena
- Heazlewoodite
- Hessite
- Nagyágite
- Native Gold
- Petzite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
View all 10 reported minerals
- Galena
- Heazlewoodite
- Hessite
- Nagyágite
- Native Gold
- Petzite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Serpentine Subgroup
- Sylvanite
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 adit symbols (5)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 10794
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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