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Ready Cash Claim

Past Producer in Skagit county in Washington, United States with commodities Chromium, Platinum
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Production statistics
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. General comments
  23. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047970
MRDS ID M700343
Record type Site
Current site name Ready Cash Claim
Alternate or previous names Cypress Island
Related records 10056089

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.72265, 48.58202 (WGS84)
Elevation 335
Relative position ABOUT 0.75 MI EAST OF TIDE POINT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Skagit(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cypress Island(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bellingham(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Victoria(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Strait of Georgia(hydrologic unit)

Puget Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Puget Sound(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Skagit

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 036N 001E 30 NE4 OF NE4 Washington

Comments on the location information

  • ON STEEP WEST SLOPE OF CYPRESS ISLAND ABOUT 0.75 MILE FROM SHORE. TOPO MAP SHOWS PROSPECT SYMBOL AT THIS LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary
Platinum Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore
Serpentine Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Dunite Has Been Serpentinized

Analytical data

Result ORE AVG. 47.5% CR2O3
Result SOME ORE SHOWED 0.006-0.245 OZ/TON PT (0.206-8.4 PPM) IN CHROMITE CONCENTRATE

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 15
USGS model code 8a
Deposit model name Podiform chromite (minor)
Mark3 model number none

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite
    Rock unit name Fidalgo Complex
    Rock description Fidalgo Complex
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Dunite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.72265, 48.58202
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description San Juan Thrust

Ore body information

  • General form VEINLETS AND POCKETS, DISSEMINATED

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Magmatic Segregaton

Comments on the geologic information

  • HOST ROCKS ARE PART OF OPHIOLITE-ARC VOLCANIC SEQUENCE IN THE DECATUR TERRANE, STRUCTURALLY HIGHEST UNIT OF THE SAN JUAN THRUST SYSTEM

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1917
Year of last production 1918

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Cypress Chrome Co.
    First year 1918

Production statistics

  • Year 1917
    Material ORE CR
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^Avg. 47.5% Cr2o3
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Cr2O3 Chromium Chromium 48wt-pct
  • Year 1918
    Period 1917-1918
    Material ORE CR
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^Avg. 47.5% Cr2o3.
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Cr2O3 Chromium Chromium 48wt-pct

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.002HA
    Length 10.97M
    Overall depth 3.66M
    Overall length 14.02M
    Overall width 1.83M

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUT 36 FT LONG, 4-6 FT WIDE, AND 10-12 FT DEEP. ALSO A 10 FT ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUNTTING, M.T., 1956, INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS - PART II, METALLIC MINERALS: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 37, V. 1, P. 39.

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J.T., 1929, PLATINUM AND BLACK SAND IN WASHINGTON, IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY 1928: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 805, P. 9-10.

  • Deposit

    DERKEY, R.E., JOSEPH, N.L., AND LASMANIS, RAYMOND, 1990, METAL MINES OF WASHINGTON - PRELIMINARY REPORT: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN-FILE REPORT 90-18, P. 333.

  • Production

    HUNTTING, 1956

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RECORD M045070 HAS BEEN MERGED AND DELETED.
Deposit CHROMITE FORMS IRREGULAR VEINLETS 1 IN. OR MORE THICK AND BUNCHES OF POCKETS 1 FT OR MORE IN DIAMETER. SURROUNDING MASSES OF SERPENTINE CONTAIN DISSEMINATED CHROMITE. THERE MAY BE SMALL PLACER ACCUMULATIONS ON BEACHES NEAR DEPOSIT - THIS HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1982 Lawson, William A. (Evarts, Russell C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1991 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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