Latitude: 38°30'3"N
Longitude: 122°18'20"W
A former Cr-PGE (Rh-Ir-Pd-Pt) mine located 8.0 km (5.0 miles) WSW of Spanish Flat.
Mineralization is a chromite deposit (Deposit Model: 15: Podiform chromite (minor)), hosted in dunite.
Related tectonic structures: California Coast Ranages.
References
Dow, D.H. & T.P. Thayer (1946), Chromite deposits of the northern Coast Ranges of California: California Division Mines Bulletin 134, part 2, chapter 1: 24.
Carlson, C.A., et al (1985), Analyses for Platinum-Group Elements in Samples from Podiform Chromite Deposits, California and Oregon: USGS Open-File Report 85-442, 14 p.
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