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Sunday Claim

Producer in Tuolumne 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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10111229
MRDS ID W025961
Record type Site
Current site name Sunday Claim
Related records 10141920

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.46378, 37.9663 (WGS84)
Elevation 518
Relative position APPROX. 2 MILES W OF SONORA, CA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tuolumne(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sonora(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Oakdale(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Stanislaus(hydrologic unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Tuolumne

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001N 014E 05 SW California

Comments on the location information

  • PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = SAN JOSE 1:250000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Serpentinized Host Rock

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Dunite
    Rock unit name Mariposa
    Rock description Mariposa
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.46378, 37.9663
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREG

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE EAST ERNMOST OF TWO SERPENTINE BELTS THAT TREND NW ACROSS THE COUNTY. THE BELT IS EXPOSED OVER AN AREA OF 3KM BY 1.5 KM.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Jamestown Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Charles Shaffer And Frank Atherton
    First year 1918
  • Type Owner
    Owner Joseph Kahl

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF A PIT 12 FT LONG, 6 FT WIDE AND 2 FT DEEP. APPROX. 2 TONS OF NEARLY MASSIVE ORE REMAIN ON THE DUMP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CATER, F.W.JR., 1948, CDMG BULL 134, PART 3, CHAPT.1P. 13

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1982 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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