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Craigs Creek

Producer in Del Norte county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109527
MRDS ID M045294
Record type Site
Current site name Craigs Creek
Related records 10114147

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.9606, 41.79482 (WGS84)
Elevation 232
Relative position ON CRAIGS CREEK 6 MI ABOVE SOUTH FORK SMITH RIVER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Del Norte(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gasquet(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Happy Camp(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Smith(hydrologic unit)

Northern California Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Six Rivers 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 Del Norte

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED. IN SIX RIVERS NATIONAL FOREST. LOCATION GIVEN IS ABOUT 2 MI UPSTREAM FROM BUILDING SHOWN ON CRAIGS CREEK, WHICH MAY BE KAUS' CABIN NOTED BY LOGAN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result BASED ON PRODUCTION FIGURES PT:AU= 1:11.11

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.9606, 41.79482
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form STREAM SEDIMENT DEPOSITS
    Thickness 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Hydraulics

Comments on the geologic information

  • BEDROCK AT LEAST PARTLY SERPENTINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Smith River (South Fork) Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • HYDRAULIC

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LOGAN, C.A., 1919, PLATINUM AND ALLIED METALS IN CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU BULLETIN 85, P. 63.

  • Deposit

    CLARK, W.B., 1970, PLATINUM: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MINERAL INFORMATION SERVICE, V. 23, NO. 6, P. 116.

  • Deposit

    CLARK, W.B., 1970, GOLD DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 193, P. 142-143.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BENCH GRAVELS ARE RICHER THAN STREAM GRAVELS IN PGE
Deposit SEE ALSO: MRDS M045288.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1974 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1989 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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