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Holiday Mine

Past 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. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098700
MRDS ID M700424
Record type Site
Current site name Holiday Mine
Alternate or previous names Holiday Group, High Dome Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.86588, 41.94704 (WGS84)
Elevation 777
Relative position APPROXIMATELY 22 MILES E OF CRESCENT CITY, CA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Del Norte(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Shelly Creek Ridge(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
Humboldt 018N;018N;018N 003E;003E;003E 20;20;20 NE OF NW OF NW California

Comments on the location information

  • PARTLY WITHIN CHALLIS NATIONAL FOREST. QUADRANGLE GIVEN IS FOR UTM AND LAT/LONG LOCATION; SEVERAL OTHER QUADRANGLES COVER AREA OF JASPEROIDS. LOCATION GIVEN IS HIGHEST POINT ON LESLIE BUTTE
  • MINE LOCATED AT THE HEAD OF THE CANYON, ALONG THE WEST FORK OF PATRICK'S CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Serpentinization Of Dunite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Dunite
    Rock unit name Galice
    Rock description Galice

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description A System Of Faults, Striking N 72 E Disect The Main Ore Body.

Ore body information

  • General form POD
    Strike N 10 W
    Dip 60 E
  • General form POD
    Dip 60 E

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN A PERIDOTITE BODY LOCATED IN NW CALIF., NEAR THE OREGON BORDER.
  • PALEOZOIC SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE CONTAINS MANY FORMATIONS WHICH ARE NAMED IN SOULLIERE AND OTHERS (1988)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1942
Discoverer Edward Cook
Year of first production 1942
Year of last production 1958

Mining district

District name Patricks Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner L. V. Tulare, Grants Pass, Ore.
    First year 1958
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Government

Production statistics

  • Year 1945
    Period World War Ii
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^Avg. 44.6% Cr2o3
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Cr2O3 Ore Chromium Chromium 45wt-pct
  • Year 1948
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^Avg. 48% Cr2o3
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Cr2O3 Ore Chromium Chromium 48wt-pct

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A CAVED ADIT AND AN OPEN CUT (1946)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STINSON, M.C., 1975, CDMG MINERAL PROPERTY REPORT, UNPUBLISHED

  • Deposit

    WELLS, F.G., 1946, GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF CHROMITE IN CALIF., CDMG BULL 134, PART 1, CHAPT. 1, PP 43-45

  • Production

    STINSON, 1975, CDMG MINERAL PROPERTY REPORT, UNPUBLISHED

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THESE JASPEROIDS ARE SIMILAR TO OTHERS THROUGHOUT THE WESTERN U.S. THAT ARE HOST TO PRECIOUS METAL DEPOSITS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1982 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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