Latitude: 38°55'14"N
Longitude: 121°0'16"W
A placer Au-PGE (Os, Ir, Pd, Rh) mine located on the upper American River.
Mineralization is a stream placer deposit hosted in gravel near the base of the Sierra Nevada foothills.
References
Logan, Clarence August (1918), Platinum and allied metals in California: California Mining Bureau. Bulletin 85, 120 pp.: 29-30, 109.
Logan, Clarence August (1927), Amador County, Placer County: California Mining Bureau. Report 23: 284.
Waring, C.A. (1919), Butte, Placer, Sacramento, Yuba Counties: Calif. Bureau Min. Report 15: 386.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California: 43.
Mineral List
2 entries listed. 2 valid minerals.
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