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Pigeon Roost Spring Claim

Producer in Del Norte 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. Geologic structures
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043434
MRDS ID M100194
Record type Site
Current site name Pigeon Roost Spring Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.95504, 41.68038 (WGS84)
Elevation 876
Relative position ASSUMED SPOT AT CENTER OF SECT. 21

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 21 California

Comments on the location information

  • CLAIM LOCATED ON THE TOP OF LITTLE RATTLESNAKE MTN., NEAR THE HEAD OF A TRIBUTORY OF ROCK CREEK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Partially Serpentinized

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.95504, 41.68038
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Economic information

Geologic structures

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

Comments on the geologic information

  • WELL DEVELOPED JOINTS STRIKING N45W AND DIPPING 35NE CONSICUOUS IN THE TRENCH.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Little Rattlesnake Mountain Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Inman Brothers
    First year 1946

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF A NW TRENDING TRENCH, 35 FT. LONG AND 6 FT. DEEP.

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. 25,69

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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