1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Long Pit, Yellow Pit Deposits

Producer in Placer county in California, United States with commodity Chromium
Map
XML
JSON
KML
D
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10110868
MRDS ID W024442
Record type Site
Current site name Long Pit, Yellow Pit Deposits
Related records 10164067

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.75603, 39.11045 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Placer(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Foresthill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Truckee(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chico(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork American(hydrologic unit)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tahoe 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 Placer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 015N 011E 29 SE California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN SE CORNER, 29

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.75603, 39.11045
ListMap

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

Mining district

District name Forest Hill Divide Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Capital Co. (Mineral Rights)
    First year 1949

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOM SR 67 PLS 1 3 BULL 134 PT 3 CH 5 P 214 PL 14

  • Production

    CDMG BULL 134, PT. 3, CHAPT. 5, P. 203

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LONG PIT ORE BODY WAS A LENSE 2 FT WIDE AND 8 FT LONG. THE YELLOW PIT ORE WAS FRIABLE AND LUMP CHROMITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1983 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.