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

Last Chance Claim

Past Producer in Skagit county in Washington, United States with commodities Chromium, Gold
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048003
MRDS ID M700394
Record type Site
Current site name Last Chance Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.71237, 48.57897 (WGS84)
Elevation 396
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Skagit(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cypress Island(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bellingham(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Victoria(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Strait of Georgia(hydrologic unit)

Puget Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Puget Sound(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Skagit

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 036N 001E 29 SW Washington

Comments on the location information

  • A SHORT DISTANCE SOUTH OF A LAKE ON CYPRESS ISLAND.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore
Serpentine Gangue

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS: ABOUT 25% CR2O3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.71237, 48.57897
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Cypress Chrome Co.
    First year 1918

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 10.67M

Comments on development

  • 35 FT ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WDMG BULL 37, P. 39

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UNKNOWN PRODUCTION AT UNKNOWN TIME. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit ORE BODIES MADE UP OF CHROMITE GRAINS THICKLY DISSEMINATED IN SERPENTINE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1982 Lawson, William A. (Evarts, Russell C.) 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