The Steep Hollow Claims is a mine located in Butte county, California.
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Mine Info
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Steep Hollow Claims MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Steep Hollow Claims
Commodity
Tertiary: Manganese
Location
State: California
County: Butte
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Jackson Mullings And A. B. Chambers
Home Office: Oroville, Ca.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Cascade-Sierra Mountains
Physiographic Section: Sierra Nevada
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Tuff
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Production): THE DEPOSIT IS WHOLLY UNDEVELOPED
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: BLACK MANGANESE OXIDE STAINED METAMORPHOSED RED CHERT BEARING SECTIONS OF SEEMINGLY VERY INTIMATE MIXTURES OF MANGANESE OXIDE AND CHALCEDONIC SILICA. CHERT IS FREQUENTLY CUT BY VEINLETS OF QUARTZ AND PINKISH LILAC MANGANESE SILICATE (INESITE TYPE). ASSOCIATED ROCKS WITH THE CHERT ARE META-TUFFS AND DENSE GREEN OMPHIBOLITE, THOUGHT TO REPRESENT A UNIT OF METAMORPHOSED CONTEMPORONEOUS FLOWS AND TUFFS.
Comment (Location): LOCATED IN S 1/2 SECTION 21
References
Reference (Deposit): CALIF. DIV. OF MINES BULLETIN (1950) NO. 152, P. 39
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