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Beegum Creek

Producer in Shasta county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum, Osmium, Iridium
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10038066
MRDS ID M045338
Record type Site
Current site name Beegum Creek
Related records 10213973

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.85971, 40.34624 (WGS84)
Elevation 390
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position NEAR TOWN OF BEEGUM ON BEEGUM CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shasta(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beegum(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Red Bluff(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Redding(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Shasta
United States California Tehama

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 029N 009W 23 SW4 California

Comments on the location information

  • MOSTLY IN OROVILLE WILDLIFE AREA, JURISDICTION UNKNOWN. LOCATION GIVEN IS AT MILE 60 MARKER ON FEATHER RIVER SHOWN ON TOPO MAP. MUCH OF DREDGED AREA NOW FLOODED
  • LOCATION GIVEN IS FOR BEEGUM CREEK AT BEEGUM; EXACT LOCATION OF PLACER IS NOT KNOWN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Secondary
Osmium Tertiary
Iridium Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PINHEAD- TO FLOUR-SIZED PGM

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Platinum Ore

Analytical data

Result PGE SAMPLES ANALYZED AT 13.5-20% PT, 79-84% OS+IR (LOGAN)

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.85971, 40.34624
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PROBABLY POCKETS OR LENSES IN STREAM-SEDIMENT DEPOSITS
    Length 2413.95M
    Width 4.57M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Hydraulics

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRAVEL RESTS ON FALSE BEDROCK OF VOLCANIC ASH; MOST OF THE METALS ARE NEAR THE ASH. TYPICAL SECTION HAS A TOP LAYER OF FINE SOIL 6-16 FT FOLLOWED BY PAY DIRT 20-50 FT DEEP. THIS RESTS ON THE ASH, WHICH IS 6-8 FT DEEP.
  • BEEGUM IS AT EAST EDGE OF EXPOSED ACCRETED TERRANE WHERE CRETACEOUS MARINE ROCKS OVERLIE ACCRETED ROCKS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Harrison Gulch

Comments on the production information

  • AT LEAST 5 OZ PT
  • 1 OZ PT/225000 YD. 7 MI BELOW OROVILLE, GRAVEL IS LOW GRADE - DREDGE = 1 OZ PT/160000 YD FOR 2 YR NEAR THERMALITO (LOGAN)

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • DOUBTFUL IF IT WOULD BE PROFITABLE (LOGAN)

Comments on the workings information

  • DEPTH OF DIGGINGS 55 FT (DOWNSTREAM) TO 25 FT (UPSTREAM) (CLARK). DREDGING
  • SMALL-SCALE MINING

Comments on development

  • FIRST DREDGED 1898

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LOGAN, C.A. 1919, PLATINUM AND ALLIED METALS IN CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU BULLETIN 85, P. 48, 49, 109.

  • Deposit

    SPENCER, C.H. JR., 1971, STATISTICAL CORRELATION OF PLATINUM METALS WITH HEAVY-MINERAL STREAM SEDIMENTS OF THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA: SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, M.S. THESIS, P. 29.

  • Deposit

    CLARK, W.B., 1970, GOLD DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 193, P. 137-138.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-74 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-89 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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