1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Victory No. 3, Sweetwater-Norcross Group

Past Producer in San Luis Obispo county in California, United States with commodity Chromium
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043668
MRDS ID M100490
Record type Site
Current site name Victory No. 3, Sweetwater-Norcross Group
Alternate or previous names Sunrise No. 3, Bernardo No. 3, Manzanita
Related records 10262216

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.75015, 35.4008 (WGS84)
Elevation 274
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Assumed Spot Center Sw, Sect. 13.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Luis Obispo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Morro Bay North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Luis Obispo(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Luis Obispo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Central Coastal(hydrologic unit)

Central California Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Los Padres 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 San Luis Obispo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 029S 011E 13 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LOW GRADE ORE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore
Aragonite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Talc Gangue
Tremolite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.75015, 35.4008
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREG
    Strike N 20 E
    Dip 25 E
  • General form IRREG
    Dip 25 E

Comments on the geologic information

  • CHROMITE OCCURS IN NUMEROUS SERPENTINIZED ULTRAMAFIC BODIES THAT ARE WIDELY DISTRIBUTED IN A NW TRENDING BELT OF THE FRANCISCAN FM.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Northern San Luis Obispo Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner L. A. Moran, J. A. Houlahan And E. C. Cazier

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF AN OPEN CUT 50 FT WIDE AND 200 FT LONG, AND A 100 FT LONG TUNNEL 100 FT DEEP. (1941)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALLEN, J.E., 1941, CDMG 37TH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST, V. 37, NO. 1, P. 142-143

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ZONE OF IRREGULAR LENSES, ON THE SURFACE, APPEARS TO BE 100 FT WIDE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-82 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.

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.