SKETCH SHOWING
DISTRIBUTION OF ORE ON THE SURFACE IN THE
SILVER KING MINE
AS IT OCCURS BETWEEN THE FAULT PLANES
CALICO MINING DISTRICT
SAN BERNARDINO CO. CAL.
COPIED FROM EXHIBIT “R”
COURT RECORDS IN THE SUIT OF
JOHN S. DOE VS. WATERLOO MINING CO.

In the Silver King Mine occurs a perfect network of veins, concerning which Mr. Hammond testified: “At the time of the uplifting of the liparite, or at some subsequent time, a fault occurred, which separated a wedge-like mass of liparite from the main mountain mass, and this fault plane was generally conceded to be what might be termed the foot wall of the mineral belt, or zone, or lode. Contemporaneously with this faulting a second fault occurred, which separated the overlying brown tufa from the liparite, which fissure forms the overhanging wall of the mineral deposits of the Silver King Mine. At the same time cross fissures were formed in the liparite mass between the two main fissures. Thus there was a main fissure or plane of contact between the brown tufa and the liparite, and a similar fault plane between the segment of liparite broken off and the main mass of the mountain. Between these two main fissures, and throughout the whole mass of this segment of liparite were innumerable fissures, some similar and equal in size to the main fissures, and others forming a finer system of fissures and cracks, extending through the rocks in all directions, leaving it in a broken and disintegrated, and in many places an almost pulverized condition. Although these finer fissures generally had a parallelism with the two main fissures bounding this segment of rock, yet, in many places, these finer seams or fissures run in every direction through the rock, forming a network, or reticulated mass. The mineral-bearing waters have deposited throughout this mass, from wall to wall, the minerals now found within this zone in the form of baryta, carrying silver. The finding of baryta in the shattered planes of the liparite, which is entirely foreign to the rock itself, is sufficient evidence that a crack or space must have existed prior to its deposition, from the solutions which penetrated this broken zone of a once massive rock formation.”

CROSS SECTIONS OF
SILVER KING MINE
TAKEN FROM COURT RECORDS IN SUIT OF
JOHN S. DOE VS. WATERLOO MINING CO.

REPORT STATE MINERALOGIST
WM. IRELAN, JR.
STATE MINERALOGIST.
VERTICAL CROSS SECTION
SHOWING THE FORMATION OF THE
SILVER KING LODE
CALICO MINING DISTRICT.
SAN BERNARDINO CO. CAL.
COPIED FROM EXHIBIT “P”
COURT RECORDS OF
JOHN S. DOE
VS.
WATERLOO MINING CO.

STATE MINERALOGIST’S REPORT
WM. IRELAN, JR.
STATE MINERALOGIST
SKETCH MAP SHOWING THE FAULT SYSTEM
OF THE CALICO MINING DISTRICT
PARTLY TAKEN FROM A MAP
BY
W. LINDGREN, E.M.
BY
W. H. STORMS, E.M.
ASSISTANT IN THE FIELD.

The Odessa Mine offers good illustrations of impregnated masses, as does also the Waterloo. In each of these mines, as in many others, the ore bodies are found in bunches or pockets, varying from little deposits of nominal value to great ore chambers containing thousands of tons of pay rock. In these cases, as at the King Mine, a system of faulting planes marks the general strike of a mineral-bearing zone or lode, but the great rock masses of tufa, in which these ore bodies occur (and also of sandstone in the Waterloo), are quite loose and porous in texture, and undoubtedly the ore bodies in these mines resulted partially, at least, from the impregnation of the rock with the mineral solutions which found an easy passage along the fault planes that had cut the rocks in every direction.

In the Waterloo Mine one of the fault planes exhibited a regularity seldom seen in any mine. It coursed through the light-colored, soft tufa in an easterly and westerly direction, was perfectly true, and as smooth as any hard-finished wall could be made by the most skillful artisan. The fracture was of knife-blade thinness, and its sides were coated with dark red iron oxide. It dipped to the southward at an angle of about 40°. At one time it was considered to be the hanging wall of the lode, but a miner broke through the wall to cut a hitch for a timber and it was found that the overlying rock beyond the slip was ore-bearing also. Stopes in this mine were frequently over ten sets in width, or over 60 feet. At the eastern end of the claim some extremely rich ore was mined from a belt of jasper, a metamorphosed clay shale, which by heat and pressure had become an intensely hard, fine-grained, flinty rock, yet some of this jasper contained over 1,000 ounces of silver per ton.