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Billy Boy Hawkins, Divide

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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109206
MRDS ID M007492
Record type Site
Current site name Billy Boy Hawkins, Divide
Related records 10260304

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.98283, 41.75288 (WGS84)
Relative position SE1/4 NW1/4.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Del Norte(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gasquet(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 016N 002E 29 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.98283, 41.75288
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner C. H. Mcclendon

Comments on the production information

  • ABOUT 500 LONG TONS OF ORE SHIPPED FROM HAWKINS AND ADJOINING FOURTH OF JULY CLAIMS IN 1944. ORE SAID TO AVERAGE 38 TO 40 PERCENT CR2O3 AND HAD A CHROMIUIM-IRON RATIO OF 2.2. THREE MEN EMPLOYED IN AUGUST 1945 SHORTLY AFTER WHICH MINE CLOSED AND HAS REMAINED IDLE.

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUTS WITH A BULLDOZER.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOLOGY, V. 48, NO. 4, OCT. 1952, PP. 269, 285

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BLUEBIRD (HIGH POINT) IN SEC. 29 - POSSIBLY OLD NAME.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey

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