Latitude: 38°14'23"N
Longitude: 120°48'28"W
A Cr occurrence/mine located in the SW¼ sec. 31, T5N, R11E, MDM.
Deposit consists of small irregular Chromite lenses and pods in Serpentine with Enstatite. Strike is N 25° W.
Long idle. Developed by trenches and pits.
References
Cater, F.W., Jr. (1948b), Chromite deposits of Calaveras and Amador Counties, California: California Division Mines Bulletin 134, part III, Chapter 2: 42, 50-51 and Pl. 5.
Turner, Henry Ward (1894), Geological atlas, Jackson (California) folio (No. 11): 1-6.
Clark, Wm. B. & P.A. Lydon (1962), Mines and mineral resources of Calaveras County, California: California Division of Mines & Geology County Report 2; [… Geological Society of America Proceedings, 1933: 312-313, 1934]: 129 and Pl. D.
USGS MR-17.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 154 (map 4-5), 433.
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