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Kangaroo Mountain

Producer in Siskiyou county in California, United States with commodities Chromium, Platinum, Palladium, Iridium, Ruthenium, Rhodium
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10077721
MRDS ID W025616
Record type Site
Current site name Kangaroo Mountain
Alternate or previous names Anniversary Mine, Kubli
Related records 10116524

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.1917, 41.92094 (WGS84)
Elevation 1780

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Siskiyou(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kangaroo Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Happy Camp(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Klamath(hydrologic unit)

Klamath(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Klamath National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Red Buttes Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Siskiyou

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 047N 012W 13,14 California

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED. IN ROGUE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST. ALONG THE CREST OF THE SISKIYOU MOUNTAINS ON EAST SIDE OF KANGAROO MOUNTAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary
Platinum Critical Tertiary
Palladium Critical Tertiary
Iridium Critical Tertiary
Ruthenium Critical Tertiary
Rhodium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore
Olivine Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Peridotite Partly Serpentinized

Analytical data

Result 2 PGE ANALYSES: PT=130, 106 PPB
Result PD=4, <1 PPB
Result IR=NA, 90 PPB
Result RU=NA, 240 PPB
Result RH=69, 15 PPB.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 15
USGS model code 8a
Deposit model name Podiform chromite (minor)
Mark3 model number none

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite
    Rock unit name Seiad Valley Complex
    Rock description Seiad Valley Complex
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Dunite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.1917, 41.92094
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Schlieren

Ore body information

  • General form DISSEMINATED
    Strike N-S
    Dip 60 W
    Thickness 12.19M
    Length 54.86M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Magmatic Segregation

Comments on the geologic information

  • COUNTRY ROCK INCLUDES GNEISSIC DIORITE, QUARTZITE, AND MARBLE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1918
Discoverer E.W. Kubli
Year of first production 1941

Mining district

District name Seiad Creek-Red Butte Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner E. W. Kubli
    First year 1950

Comments on development

  • DEPOSIT DISCOVERED IN 1918 BUT WAS NOT CLAIMED UNTIL 1941

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WELLS, F.G., AND CATER, F.W., JR., 1950, GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF CHROMITE IN CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES BULLETIN 134, PT. 1, CH. 2, P. 118.

  • Deposit

    CARLSON, C.A., AND OTHERS, 1985, ANALYSES FOR PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENTS IN SAMPLES FROM PODIFORM CHROMITE DEPOSITS, CALIFORNIA AND OREGON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-442, 14 P.

  • Deposit

    WELLS, F.G., SMITH, C.T., RYNEARSON, G.H., AND LIVERMORE J.S., 1949, CHROMITE DEPOSITS NEAR SEIAD AND MCGUFFY CREEKS, SISKIYOU COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 948-B, P. 44.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE EXPOSED IN WALL OF A GLACIAL CIRQUE. HOST DUNITE IS IN PERIDOTITE OF SEIAD VALLEY COMPLEX. SCHLIEREN ARE UBIQUITOUS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1990 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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