Yuba River District

Producer in Yuba county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum, Iridium, Osmium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000942
MRDS ID M045330
Record type District
Current site name Yuba River District
Alternate or previous names Hammonton, Yuba Gold Field, Yuba Dredge Field, Yuba Consolidated Gold Field
Related records 10166088

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.43775, 39.20048 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position LOCATION GIVEN IS ABOUT 0.25 MI SOUTH OF DAGUERRA POINT AND 1 MI NORTHWEST OF HAMMONTON; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = BROWNS VALLEY 1:24000, ACC URATE WITHIN DREDGING AREA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yuba(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Browns Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Yuba City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chico(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Yuba

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Secondary
Iridium Critical Secondary
Osmium Secondary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.43775, 39.20048

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream hydraulics

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Discovery year 1849
Discoverer W.P. Hammon And R.D. Evans
Year of first production 1905

Mining district

District name YUBA RIVER DISTRICT

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner ALAN BOND, INC.
    Home office SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
    Year 1988
  • Type Operator
    Owner YUBA PLACER GOLD CO.
    Home office SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
    Year 1988

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LOGAN, C.A., 1919, PLATINUM AND ALLIED METALS IN CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU BULLETIN 85, P. 23-26.

  • Deposit

    CLARK, W.B., 1970, GOLD DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 193, P. 62-63.

  • Deposit

    MERTIE, J.B., JR., 1969, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE PLATINUM METALS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 630, P. 92.

  • Deposit

    ROMANOWITZ, C.M., 1970, CALIFORNIA'S GOLD DREDGES: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MINERAL INFORMATION SERVICE, V. 23, NO. 8, P. 166.

  • Deposit

    ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 1988, YUBA PLACER INCREASES GOLD PRODUCTION: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, V. 189, NO. 7, P. 13.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA MINING ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER, 1976, YUBA GOLDFIELDS, INC.: NEVADA MINING ASSOCIATION, RENO, NO. 280, JULY 15, P. 3-4.

  • Deposit

    BURNETT, J.L., AND OTHERS, 1989, 1988 CALIFORNIA MINING REVIEW: CALIFORNIA GEOLOGY, V. 41, NO. 10, P. 219-223.

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative California resources

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