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Smyth Ranch

Occurrence in Placer county in California, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032048
MRDS ID M012132
Record type Site
Current site name Smyth Ranch
Related records 10236984

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.10403, 38.81889 (WGS84)
Relative position AT HORSESHOE BAR ON AMERICAN RIVER, 5 1/2 MILES EAST OF LOOMIS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Placer(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pilot Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sacramento(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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Placer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011N 008E 8 California

Comments on the location information

  • LATITUDE-LONGITUDE determined using PLS and GIS. Estimate based on unlabeled placer workings along NW side of river about 5 mi. east of Loomis in what is now a reservoir. This site location is really questionable. It may not be Smyth Ranch, which does not have a PLS location in source reference. The placer workings in Folio 5 are unlabeled, but these have been identified by an earlier worker as being the same property as in CDMG report. I have no idea how this was done.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.10403, 38.81889
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: RIVER GRAVELS TESTED - GROUND WORKED WAS DISAPPOINTING.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • GIANT PUMP USED TO PIPE GRAVEL INTO PIT FROM WHICH IT WAS DRAWN TO SLUICES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOM 23D REPORT OF STATE MINERALOGIST, P. 267

  • Deposit

    USGS FOLIO 5

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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