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Chrome Camp Mine

Past Producer in Stanislaus 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043422
MRDS ID M100177
Record type Site
Current site name Chrome Camp Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.3938, 37.4277 (WGS84)
Relative position ASSUMED SPOT AT CENTER OF SECT. 11

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Stanislaus(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Boardman(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Panoche-San Luis Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Stanislaus

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 005E California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 400 FT. ABOVE PUERTO CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Serpentinization Of Ultramafic Rocks.

Analytical data

Result ORE AVERAGED 40% CR203

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Dunite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.3938, 37.4277
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Del Puerto Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Mineral Products Co.,
    Home office San Francisco, Ca.
    First year 1917

Comments on the production information

  • A TOTAL OF 930 TONS OF ORE PRODUCED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WALDER G.W. AND GRIGGS, A.B. 1953, GIOL. INVESTIGATIONS OF CHROMITE IN CALIF.: CALIF. DIVISION OF MINES BULLETIN 134, PART II, CHAPTER. 2, P. 74, 75, 88

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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