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Section Sixteen Claim

Producer in Del Norte 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109762
MRDS ID M100195
Record type Site
Current site name Section Sixteen Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.95532, 41.69538 (WGS84)
Elevation 930
Relative position ASSUMED SPOT AT CENTER OF SW 1/4 SECT. 16

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Del Norte(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Canthook Mountain(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

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 015N 002E 16 SW California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ON TOP OF LITTLE RATTLESNAKE MOUNTAIN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Serpentinization Of Saxonite

Analytical data

Result ORE ASSAYED 41.83% CR2O3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Harzburgite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Harzburgite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.95532, 41.69538
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Little Rattlesnake Mtn. Apparently Occupies The Crest Of An Anticline.

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE, POD
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 12.19M
    Width 8.53M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Little Rattlesnake Mountain Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Hammond Lumber Co.

Comments on the production information

  • 150-1000 LONG TONS WERE PRODUCED

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF THREE OPENINGS ALONG A NW LINE. FARTHEST SE ONE A PIT 8 FT. SQUARE. 75 FT. TO THE NW IS A CAVED SHAFT AND 75 FT NW OF THE CAVED SHAFT, AN IRREGULAR DEPRESSION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WELLS, F.G., CATER, F.W. AND RYNEARSON, G.A., 1946, GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF CHROMITE IN CALIF.: CALIF. DIVISION OF MINES BULLETIN 134, PART 1, CHAPT. 1, P. 26,67

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ONE POD MAY HAVE CONTAINED AS MUCH AS 500 TONS CHROMITE. THIS CLAIM IS ON PATENTED LAND.

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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