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Sunny Slope Claim, Collins Group

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 10043694
MRDS ID M100596
Record type Site
Current site name Sunny Slope Claim, Collins Group
Alternate or previous names Cedar Gap, King Kohle, Shamrock, Triangle

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.08278, 40.36707 (WGS84)
Elevation 1091
Relative position APPROX. 3 MILES SW OF WILDWOOD, CA., Assumed Spot At Center Of Boundary Bet. Sects. 14, 15.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Trinity(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pony Buck Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Garberville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Redding(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork 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 029N 011W 14;15 California

Comments on the location information

  • DISCREPENCY BETWEEN REFERENCES AS TO WHICH SECTION SUNNYSLOPE CLAIM LOCATED. CDMG COUNTY REPORT NO. 4 LOCATION USED.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ASSAY OF 1942 SHIPMENT.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Analytical data

Result 44.33% CR2O3
Result 11.28% FE, CR TO FE RATIO 2.69 TO 1.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Dunite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.08278, 40.36707
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE
    Strike N 10 W
    Dip 90
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 22.86M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN ONE OF SEVERAL DIKE LIKE PERIDOTITE BODIES THAT ARE NW TRENDING ACROSS CENTRAL TO SW TRINITY CO.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1942
Year of last production 1954

Mining district

District name Upper Hay Fork Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Estate Of Liston Ehorn
    Home office C/O H. P. Edwards, P. O. Box 328, Red Bluff, Ca.
    First year 1965

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF AN OPEN CUT IN THE FACE OF THE HILL.

Comments on development

  • OLD OPEN CUTS INDICATE CHROMITE MINED DURING 1914-1918.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WELLS, F. G. AND HAWKES, H. E., 1965, CDMG BULL 134, PART 1, CHAPT. 3, P. 169, 170, 172, 182, 183.

  • Deposit

    O'BRIEN, J. C., 1965, CDMG COUNTY REPORT NO. 4, P. 19, 59.

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C. V., 1941, CDMG 37TH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST, V. 35, P. 19, 20.

  • Production

    CDMG BULL 134, PT. 1, CHAPT. 3, P. 183

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1982 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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