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Crow Creek Mine

Past Producer 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043512
MRDS ID M100288
Record type Site
Current site name Crow Creek Mine
Alternate or previous names Crow Creek Group, Chapman-Kirby, Mcconnell-Kirby, Mumbo Creek, Munko, Neely, Russell Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.52417, 41.17234 (WGS84)
Elevation 1731
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position APPROX. 11 MILES W. OF CASTELLA, CA., Assumed Spot Center Of Nw, Sect. 11

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Trinity(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mumbo Basin(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 11 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.52417, 41.17234
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE POD
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 91.44M

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 Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Crow Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner H. T. And J. Co.
    Home office San Francisco, Ca
    First year 1954
  • Type Owner
    Owner Southern Pacific Co.
    Home office San Francisco, Ca

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF SEVERAL OPEN CUTS (1954)

Comments on development

  • IRON CONTENT TOO HIGH TO MAKE A PROFITABLE CONCENTRATE, SO MINING WAS STOPPED IN 1954.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    O'BRIEN, J.C., 1965, CDMG COUNTY REPORT NO. 4, P. 18, 57

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-82 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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