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Manga Chrome

Producer in Nevada county in California, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109281
MRDS ID M010890
Record type Site
Current site name Manga Chrome

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.11242, 39.0635 (WGS84)
Relative position ON WOLF ROAD, 2 MI. W. OF HIGGINS CORNERS, WHICH IS 10 MI. N. OF AUBURN ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 49

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nevada(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lake Combie(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Yuba City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chico(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Bear(hydrologic unit)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Nevada

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 014N 008E 17 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN W 1/2 SE 1/4 SECTION 17

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Manganite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Rhodochrosite Ore
Rhodonite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: MANGANESE ORE BODIES LIE ALONG THE CONTACT BETWEEN CHERTY SLATE AND A HIGHLY ALTERED IGNEOUS ROCKS (GREEN DIABASE, FINE GRAINED DIORITE (METADIORITE?) AND A GREEN PORPHYRITIC ROCK (GREENSTONE)). GENERAL CHERT AND SLATE BELT IS BORDERED BY SERPENTINE ON THE N.E. MOST ORE OCCURS IN A PIPELIKE BODY, AND IN SMALLER LENSES. ORE MINERALS ARE PYROLUSITE, PSILOMELANE, MANGANITE (?), RHODONITE AND RHODOCHROSITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category State Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Dan Duggan; C. C. Stearns, D. E. Owens

Comments on the production information

  • IN 1940 THERE WAS 1/2 CARLOAD OR LESS OF MANGANESE OXIDE ORE PILED NEAR HOLES. APPARENTLY MORE WAS MINED AS BULL. 125 STATES PRODUCTION TO BE BETWEEN 150 AND 999 TONS. MINE WAS STILL ACTIVE AT THAT TIME (1943)

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1940, THREE SHALLOW HOLES . IN 1943 THE CUT WAS 340 FT. LONG, 10 TO 30 FT. DEEP AND OTHER SMALLER CUTS HAD BEEN MADE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOLOGY, V. 37, NO. 3, JULY 1941, P. 441

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 125, P. 147; BULL. 152, 1950, PP. 162-4

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOL. V. 39, NO. 1, 1943, P. 74-75

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 10-DEC-1977 Killman, K.; Albers, J. U.S. Geological Survey

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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