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Chromite from
Estrella Mine, Chorro, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chromite
Formula:Fe2+Cr23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Erroneously Reported
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chromite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Estrella Mine, Chorro, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:332759
Long-form Identifier:1:3:332759:3
GUID (UUID V4):151f9e49-ad3f-4b27-b0d8-b2cbb61abcf6
Nearest other occurrences of Chromite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Hilltop claim, Chorro, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
0.0km (0.0 miles) Leitner claim, Cerro Alto, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Castro Mine (Castro Chrome Mine; Trinidad Mine), Chorro, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Rawhide Cr occurrence, Pick and Shovel group, Chorro, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Mescal Mine, Chorro, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Crown Point claim, Seeley group, Chorro, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Niggerhead Mine, Chorro, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) El Divisadero Mine (Eldivenfaro Mine), Chorro, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Santa Clara deposit, Chorro, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Colorado Mine, Chorro, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
References
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Report (volume)
Bulletin 945-B CHROMITE DEPOSITS NEAR SAN LUIS OBISPO, SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY CALIFORNIA BY CLAY T. SMITH........................................... Castro mine........................................ Castro No.................... Estrella mine...................................... Mescal mine................................. Sweetwater mine.................................... Norcross mine. ....../.................prospects............................. Trinidad mine.......................................... Pick and
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director DIVISION OF MINES...MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO WALTER Vol. 31 W. BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1935 No...No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER OF STATE MINERALOGISTS REPORT XXXI...DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H....19017 SACRAMENTO. 1935 LIBRARY UNIVERSUY Of* CALIFORNIA Davis 1 DIVISION OF MINES EXECUTIVE AND TECHNICAL
Report (issue)
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ALLUVIAL BASINS REGIONAL AQUIFER-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY By W. R. Moyle...Open-File Report 85-695 ro ro I Sacramento, California 1986 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...Survey 2800 Cottage Way, Room W-2234 Sacramento, California 95825 Open-File Services Section Western Distribution...-------Southern California and offshore-------------------------Arizona, California, Mexico, and Nev...gory 5: Southern California and offshore------------Category 6: Arizona, California, Mexico, and Nevada------
Report (volume)
Costa Rica, chromite, manganese, and tungsten in Cuba, and tin in Mexico. Of these, the chromite and manganese...of chromite in serpentinized dunite... Nodular and enhedral chromite in troctolite..... Chromite in serpentinized...dunite from Caledonia mine, Oriente....................... High-grade chromite ore with troctolite gangue...of banded troctolite.............. Brecciated chromite o-re showing stages in intrusion of troctolite...Development of breccia from massive coarsegrained chromite.............................. Index map of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CoNrr'Nrs Introduction Compositionand usesof chromite. . . . . L J Comoosition of chromites from the...IV. Summary of analyses. . . . Isomorphism in chromite. I. Previous work, and purposes of study of isomorphism...compositions. . IV. Calculation of the ionic content of chromite unit cells from the analyses V. The spinel triangular...52 complete and lM partial analyses of purified chromite from deposits in the Western Hemisphere. The analyses...analyses show, in general, the grade of chromite at the variouslocalities studied and the complete analyses
Journal (issue)
S STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES RICHARD SACHSE, Director DIVISION OF MINES...BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO WALTER Vol. 37 W. BRADLEY State Mineralogist January, 1941 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL...MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 95183 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF- CALIFORNIA DAV I 1 DIVISION...Ryan San Francisco Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles Los Angeles Redding San Francisco San Francisco...Francisco San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco Geological Clerk Geological Clerk TABLE OF CONTENTS
Book (volume)
THE SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...The Southwestern Quadrant Arizoni, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisicna, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...Mineral Location Numbers Arizona Arkansas California Colorado 258 Louis B30 ana HOW TO USE...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
Book
^ '“ P r . . . I West Orange SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY 9048 00992838 7 257989 R q549...q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T 5 w! balJ E...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals
Report (volume)
............................................ California................................................mineralogic reports, especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota,...Bulletin, 1912. Eakle, A. S., Minerals of California: California State Min. Bur. Bull. 67, 1914. George...Nashville, Tenn. California____.Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University...Palo Alto. Prof. Arthur S. Eakle, University of California,- Berkeley. Colorado_____Prof. R. D. George,
Report (issue)
Menlo Park, California 1983 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Introduction 1 Podiform chromite 3 Synorogenic...mixtures of the oxides and silicates. A new podiform chromite model based primarily on Turkish deposits is...significant. -2- DEPOSIT TYPE AUTHOR Podiform chromite MODEL NUMBER 1.1 D. A. Singer, N. J Page, and...as an alternative to the podiform chromite model based on California and Oregon deposits. DEPOSITS Name...Bell Mine Belvidere Black Lake British Canadian Caley Carey/East Broughton Cana Brava Cassiar Mine Clinton
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1986 Refractory- and metallurgical-type chromite ores, Zambales ophiolite, Luzon, Philippines M...The Zambales ophiolite is the major source of chromite ore in the Philippines. The chromitites are concordant...mantle peridotites. Refractory and metallurgical chromite deposits are spatially separated and related to...crystallized from different parental magmas. Refractory chromite ores (30-44 wt% Cr203 ; 20-30 wt% A1203) are linked...varieties associated with lherzolites. - Metallurgical chromite ores (45-53 wt% Cr203 ; 12-18 wt% A1203) are linked
Report (volume)
This information can provide the basis for long-range mineral production and land use policy, for planning...necessary first step in the development of a long-range policy for mineral resource exploration, mineral...Colombia and Las Americas gold-vein systems, El Callao mine, Estado Bolfvar............... 18. Sketch map of...Supamo Complex range from 2,230 to 2,050 Ma; the best ages for the greenstone belts range from 2,250 to... La Flor-Carapo-La Esmeralda area Cerro Bolivar-San Isidro iron mining district El Pao-El Palmar iron-manganese
Report (volume)
Surficial enrichment................................. Mine descriptions......................................Buenavista group................................. Cadiz mine....................................... Taratana...Redondo mine.............................. Caaualidad mine.................................. Lucia mine...mine .....Co................................ Mamie] mine........ 0 ............................. III 307...327 328 328 328 330 332 333 334 IV CONTENTS Mine descriptions Continued. Baire-Los Negros area
Book
353-416 257-320 321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...gysinite-(Nd) and other rare minerals from [the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298
Report (issue)
U, S. A . • • - I • • • • STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN J. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL...DIVISION OF MINES .. FRA.NCISCO FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO 11 OLAF P. JENKINS, Chief BULLETIN 176...176 DECEMBER 1957 MINERAL COMMODITIES . OF CALIFORNIA • GEOLOGIC OCCURRENCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND...Bureau of Mines United States Geological Survey California Institute of Technology • • ( 3 ) • • ...Xatural enYironment of the mineral resources of California, by Olaf P. Jenkins ______________________________________
Report (issue)
(no. 37 on map). The El Callao mine was the most productive gold mine in the world during the latter...to a depth of 250 m at the underground Colombia Mine (being mined by MINERVEN in 1989) are estimated...as well understood. Hydraulic methods are used to mine the ore. Pedro Lira (Ministry of Energy and Mines...mineralization. Gold production in 1987 at the Cristina 5 mine in the Kilometer 88 district was 1,700 kg, from...Quebrada Grande area (no. 66) and the San Salvador de Paul mine (no. 81) have been the largest producers
Book
Pefioles, Compafiia Minera Fresnillo, and Compania Santa Rosalia, who allowed me to photograph, gather samples...Peter Megaw, John Whitmire, Paul Desautels, Jose Luis Garza-Nieto, A. P. Salas-Guillero, Eugene Schlepp...miles) bordering the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortés) in the west to 2,805 kilometers...vast tropical jungles toward the south. Altitudes range from 6 meters (20 feet) below sea level near Mexicali...flora have developed because of this wide climatic range. There are thousands of different species and varieties
Book
Pefloles, Compania Minera Fresnillo, and Compaii.ia Santa Rosalia, who aJlowed me to photograph, gather samples...Peter Megaw, John Whitmire, Paul Desautels, Jose Luis Garza-Nieto, A. P Salas-Guillero, Eugene Schlepp...miles) bordering the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes) in the west to 2,805 kilometers...vast tropical jungles toward the south. Altitudes range from 6 meters (20 feet) below sea level near Mexicali...flora have developed because of this wide climatic range. There are thousands of different species and varieties
Book (edition)
Chicago Boston 89 New York Manhattan 90 Washington San Francisco Los Angeles 91 Mexico City Sao Paulo Santiago...07 Western USA 15m 58,59 North Central USA 1:5m_ 60,61 South Central USA 1:5M 62,63 1:5M USA & Canada:...Great Lakes 64,65 California Hawaii 1:25M&1:5M 66 Florida & South East USA 1:5mM 67 USA: Atlantic Seaboard...AMERICAN SAMOA STATUS: Unincorporated Territory of USA (see UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) AREA: 197 sq km (76...western Europe. ALEUTIAN ISLANDS STATUS: Territory of USA AREA: 17,665 sq km (6,820 sq miles) POPULATION:
Report (issue)
Hernando Mendoza Forero, Gloria Rodriquez Sierra, and Luis Jaramillo Cortes Institute Nacional de Investigaciones...Geological Survey editorial standards. Menlo Park, California 1984 Contents Summary 1 Introduction 2...(classification number in Appendices A and B) 48 Podiform chromite (1.1) 7 Porphyry copper molybdenum-rich; gold-rich...for given deposit types, as labeled 2. Podiform chromite 6 3. Porphyry copper, Mo-rich; Au-rich 8 ...environments of Colombia are permissive for a wide range of mineral deposit types. In addition to new deposits
Book (edition)
information from the Flag Research Center, Massachusetts, USA Mr. P.J.M Geelan, Place-name consultant Mr Michael...56,57 Western USA 1:5m 58,59 North CentralUSA 1:5m 60,61 SouthCentral USA 1:m 62,63 USA & Canada: The...Lakes 1:5m 64,65 California & Hawaii 1:25M&15M 66 Florida & SouthEast USA 15m 67 USA: AtlanticSeaboard...Chicago Boston 89 New York Manhattan 90 Washington San Francisco LosAngeles 91 Mexico City Sao Paulo Santiago...principal ALEUTIAN ISLANDS STATUS: Territory of USA AREA: 17,665 sq km (6,820 sq miles) POPULATION: 6
Report (volume)
Colorado-- Federal Center, Bldg. 810 MENLO PARK, California--Bldg. 3, Rm. 3128,345 Middlefield Rd. • RESTON...Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125 South State St. SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rm. 504, 555 Battery St...pediform chromite, by John P. Albers 34 Grade and tonnage model of minor pediform chromite, by Donald...34 Grade and tonnage model of major pediform chromite, by Donald A. Singer, Norman J Page, and Bruce...cross-section of pediform chromite deposits 40 Tonnages of pediform chromite deposi a typical mafic-ultramafic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of platinum-group elements and Os isotopes in chromite ores from Mayarı́-Baracoa Ophiolitic Belt (eastern...ophiolitic belt in eastern Cuba hosts abundant chromite deposits of historical economic importance. Among...Among these deposits, the chemistry of chromite ore is very variable, ranging from high Al (Cr#=0.43–0...correlate negatively with the Pd/Ir ratio showing that chromite concentrates mainly Os, Ir and Ru which gives...increasing whole-rock PGE contents and Cr# of chromite. Furthermore, cOs values of all but one of the
Book (edition)
Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...abbreviations used are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is. (island), Vole. (volcano)...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado
 
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