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Pereira Group Claims

Producer in San Luis Obispo 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. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109767
MRDS ID M100477
Record type Site
Current site name Pereira Group Claims
Alternate or previous names Claims: Beauty Spot, Potrero, Red Rock Ocean View
Related records 10165179

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.09571, 35.74107 (WGS84)
Elevation 762
Relative position ASSUMED SPOT AT CENTER OF SECT. 22.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Luis Obispo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pebblestone Shut-in(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cambria(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Luis Obispo(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Salinas(hydrologic unit)

Central California Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California San Luis Obispo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 025S 008E 22 California

Comments on the location information

  • APPROXIMATELY 3-4 MILES N. OF PINE MOUNTAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • HIGH GRADE ORE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.09571, 35.74107
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE OTHER STRINGERS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Joe And Pable Pereira

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS ON THE THREE CLAIMS CONSISTED OF SHALLOW TRENCHES AND PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BRADLEY, W.W., ET AL, MANGANESE AND CHROMIUM IN CALIF.: CALIF. STATE MINING BUREAU P. 176.

  • Deposit

    WALKER, G.W. AND GRIGGS, A.B., 1953, GEOL. INVESTIGATIONS OF CHROMITE IN CALIF.: CALIF. DIVISION OF MINES BULLETIN 134, PART II, CHAPT. 2, P. 83.

Reporter information

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

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