Deleray and Rodgers Claim

Past Producer in Del Norte county in California, United States with commodity Chromium
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. Geologic structures
  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 10043433
MRDS ID M100193
Record type Site
Current site name Deleray and Rodgers Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.95532, 41.69538 (WGS84)
Elevation 945
Relative position ASSUMED SPOT AT CENTER OF SW 1/4 SECT. 16.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Del Norte(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Canthook Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Happy Camp(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Smith(hydrologic unit)

Northern California Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Six Rivers 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 Del Norte

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 015N 002E 16 SW California

Comments on the location information

  • CLAIM LOCATED ON EAST BROW OF A RIDGE, 1000 FT. E-NE OF THE SECTION SIXTEEN DEPOSITS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore
Uvarovite Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORE ASSAYED 40.04 90% CHROMITE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Dunite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Dunite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.95532, 41.69538

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Little Rattlesnake Mtn. Apparently Occupies The Crest Of An Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Little Rattlesnake Mountain Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Hammond Lumber Co.
    First year 1946
  • Type Operator
    Owner Deleray, Arthur
    First year 1946
  • Type Operator
    Owner Rodgers, J. J.
    First year 1946

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF TWO TRENCHES, ONE OF WHICH TRENDS N45E IS 18 FT. LONG, 6 FT. WIDE AND 5 FT. DEEP; THE OTHER OF WHICH TRENDS N18W, IS 23 FT. LONG, 5 FT. WIDE AND UNKNOWN ORIGINAL DEPTH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WELLS, F.G., CATER, F.W. AND RYNEARSON, G.A., 1946 GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF CHROMITE IN CALIF.: CALIF. DIVISION OF MINES BULLETIN 134, PART 1, CHAPT. 1 P. 25, 68

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 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.

Authoritative California resources

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