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Hodge Ranch Occurrence

Past Producer in Placer 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043565
MRDS ID M100349
Record type Site
Current site name Hodge Ranch Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.80797, 39.22656 (WGS84)
Elevation 1204
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Assumed Spot Center Nw, 25

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Placer(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dutch Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Truckee(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chico(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Bear(hydrologic unit)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Placer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 016N 010E 25 NW California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE CONTAINED 35% CR2O3

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.80797, 39.22656
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT OCCURS AT THE NORTHERN END OF THE EASTERNMOST OF 3 SUB PARALLEL BELTS OF ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS THAT TREND NORTHWARD ACROSS THE COUNTY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Dutch Flat Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner R. E. Linder And J. R. Hodges
    First year 1918
  • Type Owner
    Owner Hodges, J. R.
    First year 1918

Comments on the production information

  • APPROX. 40 LT OF ORE SHIPPED IN 1917 OR 1918 MAY HAVE COME FROM THE UVAROVITE CLAIM (M100378)

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED (1918) OF AN ADIT, 30 FT LONG, A RAISE, 10 FT HIGH AND A DITCH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RYNEARSON, G.A., 1953, CDMG BULL 134, PT. 3, CHAPT. 5, P. 201, 204, 309

  • Production

    CDMG BULL 134, PT. 3, CHAPT. 5, P. 201

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-83 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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