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Kilday Ranch Deposits

Producer in Santa Clara 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10077470
MRDS ID W025133
Record type Site
Current site name Kilday Ranch Deposits
Related records 10116676

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.88436, 37.18464 (WGS84)
Elevation 415

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Clara(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Los Gatos(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Coyote(hydrologic unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Santa Clara

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
008S 001E 32 California

Comments on the location information

  • APPROX. 8 MILES SE OF LOS GATOS, CA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Analytical data

Result CHROMITE USUALLY CONTAINED LESS THAN 45% CR2O3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.88436, 37.18464
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1915

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Farish Co.
    First year 1916
  • Type Owner
    Owner M. J. Kilday
    First year 1915

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF SEVERAL OPEN CUTS AND TRENCHES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEO. V. 50, NO.2, APR. 1954, P.401

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TOTAL PRODUCTION AMOUNTED TO 175 LT CHROMITE

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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