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Pine Flat Nos. 1-3 Claims

Past Producer in Plumas 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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043617
MRDS ID M100411
Record type Site
Current site name Pine Flat Nos. 1-3 Claims
Alternate or previous names Bald Mountain No. 1-2 Claims 1937

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.98993, 39.86932 (WGS84)
Elevation 1609
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position APPROX. 5 MILES DIRECTLY SW OF QUINCY, CA., Assumed Spot At Center On Line Bet. Two Sects.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Plumas(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Onion Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Portola(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chico(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

East Branch North Fork Feather(hydrologic unit)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Plumas 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 Plumas

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 023N 009E 08;09 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ON LINE BETWEEN SECTIONS 8 AND 9.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.98993, 39.86932
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
  • General form IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discoverer E.R. Patterson And E.V. Spivey
Year of last production 1943

Mining district

District name Rock Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Patterson And Spivey
    First year 1943

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTED OF AN OPEN CUT (1943).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RYNEARSON, G.A., 1953, CDMG BULL 134, PT. 3, CHAPT. 5, P. 293, 315

  • Production

    CDMG BULL 134, PT. 3, CHAPT. 5, P. 293

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT CONSISTED OF FLOAT AND A FEW SMALL STRINGERS OF ORE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-82 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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