The Fiddler's Green, Farmer Property is a chromium mine located in Placer county, California.
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Fiddler's Green, Farmer Property MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Fiddler's Green, Farmer Property
Commodity
Primary: Chromium
Location
State: California
County: Placer
District: Gas Canyon Area
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: R. H. Farmer
Years: 1918 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Cascade-Sierra Mountains
Physiographic Section: Sierra Nevada
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: POD
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 13.0 % SIO2
Analytical Data: ORE ASSAYED 32.3 % CR2O3
Materials
Ore: Chromite
Gangue: Magnetite
Comments
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: WORKINGS OPENED A SERIES OF SMALL "BUNCHES" OF ORE STRIKING N. 80 DEG. E. ALONG THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE SERPENTINE AND AMPHIBOLITE SCHIST. ORE REPORTED TO BE FINE-GRAINED AND CONTAINED MAGNETITE. ANOTHER DEPOSIT ABOUT 50 FT. LOWER IN ALT. WAS A STRINGER OF LOWGRADE ORE (DISSEMINATED?) STRIKING N. 60 DEG. E. AND DIPPING 60 DEG. SE.
Comment (Location): WARING, 1917 REPORTED THE DEPOSIT TO BE IN SECT. 29BUT RYNEARSON BELIEVES THIS TO BE AN ERROR, AND THE DEPOSIT ISREALLY IN SECT. 24.; LATITUDE-LONGITUDE VALUES CALCULATED FROM TOWNSHIP, RANGE, SECTION.
Comment (Deposit): ORIGINAL DISCOVERY OPENED A SERIES OF SMALL BUNCHES OF ORE STRIKING N80E ALONG THE CONTACT BETWEEN SERPENTINE AND AMPHIBOLITE SCHIST. ANOTHER DEPOSIT 50 FT LOWER IN ALTITUDEFROM ORIGINAL DEPOSIT EXPOSED A STRINGER OF LOW GRADE ORE STRIKING N60E AND DIPPING 60SE.
Comment (Workings): ORIGINAL DISCOVERY OPENED BY 4 OPEN CUTS ABOUT 10 FT. LONG, 4 FT. DEEP AND A 12-FT. SHAFT; OTHER DEPOSIT OPENED BY A SHALLOW OPEN CUT ABOUT 30 FT. LONG . ABOUT 9 TONS OF ORE ON DUMPS IN 1917.
References
Reference (Deposit): DOM BULL. 134, PT. 3, CHAP. 5, P. 230, PL. 13
Reference (Deposit): DOM BULL. 76, P. 160
Reference (Deposit): SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO., MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, V. 2, P. 13-15
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