Upper Feather River region (Upper Feather), Red Hill, Edmanton Mining District (Meadow Valley Mining District), Plumas County, California, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
40° 2' 60'' North , 121° 13' 0'' West
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Mindat Locality ID:
86667
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:86667:6
GUID (UUID V4):
1f17c355-fba1-4d21-9a89-0d02f4a5a6a2
A placer Au-PGE(Pt)-Hg occurrence located in sec. 5, T25N, R7E, MDM, 2.9 km (9,400 feet) WNW of Red Hill. This regional occurrence includes areas along the Feather River N of Oroville to the mountains near Rich Bar, on National Forest land. The location given is for Rich Bar, at the mouth of Kellogg Ravine. The MRDS database stated accuracy for this location is 10,000 meters.
Mineralization is a placer deposit (Model code 119; USGS model code 39a BC deposit profile C01. C02; Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE; Mark3 model number 54). Ore emplacement controls involved stream hydraulics. Local rocks include ultramafic rocks, chiefly Mesozoic, unit 2 (Western Sierra Nevada and Klamath Mountains) and/or Paleozoic marine rocks, undivided, unit 6 (Northwestern Sierra Nevada).
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References
(n.d.) Minerals Availability System (MAS), U.S. Bureau of Mines.file ID #0060630364
