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Green Ridge Claim

Past Producer in Butte county in California, United States with commodity Chromium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Ownership information
  14. Production statistics
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10028429
MRDS ID M005384
Record type Site
Current site name Green Ridge Claim
Alternate or previous names Dynamite Kid Or Wells Mine W.W. I
Related records 10138692

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.53439, 39.70627 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Butte(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cherokee(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chico(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chico(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork Feather(hydrologic unit)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Butte

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 021N 004E 04 SE OF NW California

Comments on the location information

  • DEPOSIT LOCATED NEAR THE COUNTY ROAD IN SE OF NW, 4 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :UNDETERMINED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Serpentine Highly Sheared.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.53439, 39.70627
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE
    Strike N48W
    Dip 80NE

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT OCCURS IN A MASS OF SERPENTINE 300 - 400 FT WIDE AND HALF MILE LONG.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of last production 1918

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Loren Babcock

Production statistics

  • Year 1918
    Material ORE CR
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^35 % Cr2o3
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Cr2O3 Chromium Chromium 35wt-pct

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF TWO OPEN CUTS, THE LARGEST OFWHICH WAS 80 FT LONG, 3 - 20 FT WIDE AND 4 - 10 FT DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RYHEARSON, G. A. , 1953, CDMG BULL 134, PT. 3, CHAPT. 5, P. 280, 281, 300

  • Deposit

    SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO., MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY, NORTHERN CALIF., V. 2, P. 19

  • Deposit

    CDM BULL. 184, PL. 1

  • Production

    CDMG BULL 134, PT. 3, CHAPT. 5, P. 281

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE CONTAINED ABOUT 35% CR2O3 ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit MAIN ORE BODY WAS TABULAR IN SHAPE AND WAS 60 FT LONG, 2 FT WIDE AND 15 FT DEEP.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1983 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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