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Iron Spring Claim

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043567
MRDS ID M100352
Record type Site
Current site name Iron Spring Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.77075, 39.19156 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Assumed Spot 1.75 Miles North Of Se Corner, 05 Along Boundary

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Placer(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dutch Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Truckee(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chico(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork American(hydrologic unit)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tahoe 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 Placer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 015N 011E 05 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED NEAR THE NEST EDGE OF SECT. 5 APPROX. 250 FT EAST OF THE SE CORNER OF LOT 20, SECT. 6.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.77075, 39.19156
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form POD

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discoverer J.D. Sullivan

Mining district

District name Dutch Flat Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Charles Kempster And R. E. Linder
    First year 1918
  • Type Owner
    Owner Sullivan, J. D.
    First year 1949

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RYNEARSON, G.A., 1953, CDMG BULL 134, PT. 3, CHAPT. 5, P. 201, 206, 309

  • Production

    CDMG BULL 134, PT. 3, CHAPT. 5, P. 201

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT CONSISTED OF A 7-8 TON BOULDER OF CHROMITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-83 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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