USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · Calaveras County
Vogelsang Mine
Unconfirmed Iron Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- Calaveras
- Mining district
- Carson Hill
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Iron
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- City of Stockton, Mcafee Lease
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Cr-Fe occurrence/mine located in sec. 34, T4N, R11E, MDM, 1.3 km (0.8 mile) S of Buena Vista Mountain (coordinates of record), on the northern edge of Bear Mountains (ridge) (on the floor of a valley about ¼ mile wide, near the center of the S…
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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
Operators / organizations
- G. D. Vogelsang · Source-reported owner · 1976
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chromite
- Muscovite
- Plagioclase
- Pyroxene
- Pyroxene Group
- Serpentine
- Serpentine Subgroup
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: 263678
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (5)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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