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Platina

Past Producer in Shasta county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10038067
MRDS ID M045339
Record type Site
Current site name Platina
Related records 10141776

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.89249, 40.36013 (WGS84)
Elevation 680
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position AT TOWN OF PLATINA NEAR PLATINUM GULCH, EAST OF LODE DEPOSITS OF HARRISON GULCH DISTRICT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shasta(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Platina(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Red Bluff(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Redding(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 Shasta

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 029N 009W 16,21 SW4 (16); NW4 (21) California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS FOR MOUTH OF PLATINUM GULCH AT PLATINA. PLACERS ARE PRESUMED TO BE ALONG PLATINUM GULCH INFO FROM LAND.ST :01?

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.89249, 40.36013
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PROBABLY POCKETS OR LENSES IN STREAM SEDIMENTS
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Hydraulics

Comments on the geologic information

  • PLATINA IS UNDERLAIN BY SMALL AREA OF CRETACEOUS MARINE ROCKS, BUT STREAMS DRAIN AREAS OF ACCRETED TERRANE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Harrison Gulch District

Comments on the production information

  • UNVERIFIED BYPRODUCT PT PRODUCTION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CLARK, W.B., 1970, PLATINUM: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MINERAL INFORMATION SERVICE, V. 23, NO. 6, P. 116.

  • Deposit

    CLARK, W.B., 1970, GOLD DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 193, P. 137-138.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1974 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1989 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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