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Stone Corral Lookout

Occurrence in Del Norte county in California, United States with commodity Nickel
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033772
MRDS ID M020417
Record type Site
Current site name Stone Corral Lookout
Related records 10284358

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -124.01616, 41.93899 (WGS84)
Relative position ON A RIDGE W. OF THE N. FORK OF SMITH RIVER. ACCESS FROM SMITH RIVER IS VIA ABOUT 10 MI. OF GRADED DIRT ROAD.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Del Norte(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

High Divide(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Crescent City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Crescent City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Smith(hydrologic unit)

Northern California Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Six Rivers National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Del Norte

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Humboldt 018N 001E 13,23,24,25,26 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM APPROX. LOC.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Tertiary

Analytical data

Result ONE SAMPLE ASSAYED 0.60 PERCENT NICKEL

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -124.01616, 41.93899
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: AREA IS UNDERLAIN BY PERIDOTITE, WHICH IS CONSIDERABLY SHEARED AND LOCALLY ALTERED TO SERPENTINITE. ALL CHROMITE ORE BODIES LIE WITHIN SHEARED PERIDOTITE. LATERITE MANTLE LYING UPON THE PERIDOTITE IS ROCKY AND AT NO PLACE DOES IT SUPPORT STANDS OF RELATIVELY TALL TREES. BEST GRADE OF LATERITE ( 0.60 PERCENT NICKEL ) OCCURS AS NARROW 100 FT. BELT ALONG WILMER ROAD, WHICH FOLLOWS RIDGE CREST AND PART OF OLD KLAMATH PENEPLANE. LATERITE IN BELT AVERAGES 5 FT. IN DEPTH. BELOW RIDGE CREST, ON E. SIDE, OCCURS ABOUT 200 ACRES OF ROCKY LATERITE, PERHAPS LESS THAN 3 FT. IN DEPTH, WHOSE GRADE IN NICKEL IS NOT KNOWN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1955

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Owned In Part By Chromite Claim Holders, Of Which Copper Creek Claim, In Sec. 26 , T 18 N, R 1 E, Is

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BRIGHT, J.H., 1974 ( 1958 ), PRIVATE COMMUNICATION

  • Deposit

    WELLS, FRANCIS G., CATER, FRED W. JR., AND RYNEARSON, G.A., 1946 , CHROMITE DEPOSITS OF DEL NORTE COUNTY, CALIF: CALIF. D.O.M. BULL. 134 , PT. 1 , CH. 1 , 76 P.

  • Deposit

    CHESTERMAN, C.W., 1976 , WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: MIDDLE 1950'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1978 Killman, K.; Albers, J. U.S. Geological Survey

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