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Pink Crystal Claim

Occurrence in Trinity 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. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043503
MRDS ID M100278
Record type Site
Current site name Pink Crystal Claim
Alternate or previous names Costa Lease

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.51388, 41.12263 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 14 MILES W. OF CASTELLA, CA., Lat/Long Estimated At Center Of Sec. 25/26 Border.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Trinity(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Whisky Bill Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Shasta(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Trinity(hydrologic unit)

Klamath(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Shasta-Trinity 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 Trinity

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 038N 006W 25;26 California

Comments on the location information

  • CLAIM LOCATED ON THE SLOPE OF THE EAST FORK OF THE TRINITY RIVER. IN SHASTA NATIONAL FOREST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Extensive Serpentinization Of Peridotite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.51388, 41.12263
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREG

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN A LARGE PERIDOTITE BODY THAT COVERS APPROX. 300 SQ. MILES OF NE TRINITY CO.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1939
Discoverer Elmo Pickering And Bud Wagner

Mining district

District name Crow Creek Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WELLS, F.G. AND HAWKES, H.E, 1965, CDMG BULL 134, PART 1, CHAPT. 3, P. 174, 175.

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1941, CDMG 37TH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST, V. 37, P. 19

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-82 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey REPLACING LOST LOCATION.
Updater 13-NOV-97 Oland, G. P. (Orris, Greta J.) U.S. Geological Survey OLAND AND ORRIS MERGED RECORDS
Editor 08-MAY-98 Mason, George U.S. Geological Survey

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