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Parker Ranch Meadowbrook Ranch, Mcnear, Or Auburn Chrome

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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109297
MRDS ID M012221
Record type Site
Current site name Parker Ranch Meadowbrook Ranch, Mcnear, Or Auburn Chrome
Related records 10188580

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.10492, 38.97628 (WGS84)
Relative position S1/2 NE1/4 ABOUT HALF A MILE EAST OF HIGHWAY 49

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Placer(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Auburn(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Placer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 013N 008E 17 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.10492, 38.97628
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF A ZONE OF STREAKS AND SMALL LENSES OF DISSEMINATED ORE OCCURRING IN A SMALL MASS OF SERPENTINE NEAR THE CONTACT WITH A MASS OF DIABSE(?). ORE ZONE STRIKES N WITH AN OVERALL DIP OF ABOUT 80 DEG. E., IS SAID TO BE 40 FT. WIDE IN GLORY HOLE BUT AVE. PROBABLY 20 FT., AVE. DEPTH ABOUT 40 FT. ORE FINE GRAINED AND TENOR RANGES WIDELY (8-40%).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Production years 1918, 1943-44

Mining district

District name Dry Creek Area

Comments on the production information

  • 1918, 1943-44 TOTAL ABOUT 505 LONG TONS OF ORE.

Comments on the workings information

  • ACCESS TUNNEL ABOUT 140 FT. LONG, TWO INTERCONNECTED STOPES, OR GLORY HOLES, CROSS CUTS, DRIFTS, OPEN CUTS, TRENCHES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOM BULL. 134, PT. 3, CHAP. 5, P. 202, 230-232, PL. 13

  • Deposit

    DOM BULL. 76, P. 161

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey

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