The Mayflower Chrome Mine is a mine located in Calaveras county, California at an elevation of 1,089 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 1,089 Feet (332 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 37.9586, -120.55720
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Mayflower Chrome Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Mayflower Chrome Mine
Secondary: Burnham and Wilson
Commodity
Tertiary: Chromium
Tertiary: Iron
Location
State: California
County: Calaveras
District: French Creek District
Land Status
Land ownership: Federal
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Type: Fee Ownership
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: U.S. Bureau Of Land Management - Sacramento Office
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: California
Info Year: 1976
Owner Name: Gillis, C. A.
Home Office: California
Info Year: 1976
Years: 1941 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1916
Discovery Year: 1916
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
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Chromite
Unknown: Olivine
Unknown: Pyroxene
Unknown: Talc
Unknown: Serpentine
Comments
Comment (Deposit): CATER (1948) STATES THAT ORE WAS 48 PERCENT CR2O3. MINE VISTED SEPT 16,1975. APPROX-IMATELY 667 LONG TONS OF OR CED. THE AVERAGE MINABLE GRADE OF CHROMITE IS 48 PERCENT & IS 11 PERCENT. INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MATRIX CALCULATIONS. ANALYSIS BY CDMG IN 1976 GAVE FOLLOWING PERCENTAGES-DISSEMIN E=S102 03.16, CR2O3 51.16, FEO 13.77, TOTAL FE 15.44, AL203 13.2 3.27, CR/FE 2.92.
References
Reference (Deposit): CALIF B 134,PT 3,CH 2,P 42 & PL 5;B 76,P 121;B 145 ,PL 2;REP
Reference (Deposit): 165;CALIF COUNTY REPT NO 2,P 22, 129 & PL D
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