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Rock River Property

Past Producer in Butte county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036031
MRDS ID M024019
Record type Site
Current site name Rock River Property
Related records 10162985

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.52716, 39.60905 (WGS84)
Elevation 433
Relative position 0.3 MI. SE CANNON RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Butte(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oroville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Chico(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chico(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Butte

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 020N 004E 04,09 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM ACC. NE 1/4 9

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.52716, 39.60905
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N48W
    Dip 45SW
    Thickness 0.91M

Comments on the geologic information

  • HOST ROCK HIGHLY DECOMPOSED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • 300 FT. INCLINE WITH 3 LEVELS. 3 DRIFTS TO NORTH OF 300, 275 AND 160 FT. IN LENGTH. 2 100 FT. DRIFTS DRIVEN SOUTH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WARING, C.A., 1915, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIF: CALIF. JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 15, P. 221

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, J.J., 1896, THIRTEENTH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 13, P. 92

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 3 CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit VEIN, 20 IN.-3 FT. THICK. SOME GOLD OCCURED IN FREE-STATE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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