Latitude: 41°47'42"N
Longitude: 123°57'34"W
A former dredge placer Au-PGE (Pt) mine located on the S fork of the Smith River, 2.9 km (9,700 feet) WNW of Lower Coon Mountain (coordinates of record) and 3.5 km (2.2 miles) SSE of French Hill (ppl).
Mineralization is a placer Au-PGE deposit (Deposit Model: 119), hosted in stream gravels.
Related tectonic structures include the Klamath Mountains accreted terrane.
References
Logan, Clarence August (1918), Platinum and allied metals in California: California Mining Bureau. Bulletin 85, 120 pp.: 63.
O’Brien, J.C. (1952b), Mines and minerals of Del Norte County, California: California Journal of Mines and Geology: 48(4): 300.
Pacific Southwest Field Committee (1960), Natural Resources of Northwestern California, Appendix, Geology, Mineral Resources, Mineral Industry: U.S. Department of the Interior, Fig. 3.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 41.
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