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Big Red Mountain Chrome Mines

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. 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 10103902
MRDS ID M100183
Record type Site
Current site name Big Red Mountain Chrome Mines
Alternate or previous names Claims: Nos. 1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.87615, 41.51844 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219
Relative position ASSUMED SPOT AT CENTER OF SECT. 18.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Del Norte(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Klamath Glen(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Happy Camp(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Klamath(hydrologic unit)

Klamath(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
Mount Diablo 013N 003E 18 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • HIGH GRADE ORE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore
Uvarovite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Dunite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Harzburgite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Dunite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Harzburgite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.87615, 41.51844
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form POD LENSE

Comments on the geologic information

  • CHROMITE IS USUALLY FOUND ENCASED IN SHELLS OF DUNITE UP TO 4FT. THICK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Red Mountain Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Deleray, Kenneth
    Home office Crescent City, Ca
    First year 1946

Comments on the production information

  • LESS THAN 150 LONG TONS OF ORE PRODUCED

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • 4 LONG TONS OF ORE STACKED ON DUMPS OF NO. 1 CLAIM, LESS THAN 1 TON ON NO. 2 CLAIM AND APPROXIMATELY 3.5 TONS ON NO. 3 CLAIM.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS ON CLAIM NO. 1 CONSISTED OF 2 OPEN CUTS, BOTH TRENDING N80W. THE LARGER WAS 25 FT. LONG, 10FT. WIDE, 7FT. DEEP; SMALLER CUT WAS 10FT. LONG, 6FT WIDE AND 4 FT. DEEP. CLAIM NO. 2 WORKINGS CONSISTED OF ONE PIT 10FT. LONG, 6FT. WIDE, 5FT. DEEP. CLAIM NO. 3 WORKINGS CONSISTED OF 2 PITS, ONE 30FT. LONG, 10FT. WIDE, 6FT. DEEP AND THE OTHER 15FT. LONG, 8FT WIDE AND 6 FT DEEP. (AUGUST, 1944)

Comments on development

  • IN 1918, THE BIG RED MOUNTAIN CHROME MINES, OWNED AND OPERATED BY CHARLES BREWER, HELD 20 CLAIMS IN SECTS. 13, 24 T.13N, R.2E AND SECT. 19 OF T.13N, R.3E.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WELLS, F.G. CATER , F.W. JR., RYNEARSON G.A. 1946 GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF CHROMITE IN CALIF.: CALIF. DIVISION OF MINES BULLETIN 134, PART 1, CHAPT. 1, P. 71, 40

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE BODY OF CLAIM NO. 1 AND 2 TRENDED APPROXIMATELY N80W. ORE BODYOF CLAIM NO. 3 WAS A 6 IN. LENSE THAT HAD A STRIKE OF N50W AND DIP OF 50NE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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