The Weitchpec Bar is a gold mine located in Humboldt county, California at an elevation of 200 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 200 Feet (61 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 41.18583, -123.70806
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Weitchpec Bar MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Weitchpec Bar
Secondary: Hoopa Indian Reservation
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Platinum
Tertiary: Palladium
Tertiary: Rhodium
Tertiary: Ruthenium
Tertiary: Osmium
Tertiary: Iridium
Location
State: California
County: Humboldt
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Stream Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Form: STREAM SEDIMENT DEPOSITS
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Sperrylite
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Deposit): FORMER RECORD MO45278 HAS BEEN COMBINED WITH THIS RECORD (02/92), AS THEY PROBABLY REFER TO THE SAME PROPERTY ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Commodity): GOLD IS FLOUR TO 1/4 IN. FLAKES; PT IS DUST TO TWO PINHEAD SIZED (LOGAN). PGM IDENTIFIED BY ELECTRON MICROPROBE AND X-RAY FROM SAMPLE OF PLACER GRAVELS
Comment (Location): IN HOOPA VALLEY INDIAN RESERVATION. JUST BELOW CONFLUENCE OF KLAMATH AND TRINITY RIVERS. LOCATION GIVEN IS CONFLUENCE OF THE TWO RIVERS
Comment (Deposit): VALUES ARE WITHIN 3 FT OF BEDROCK. DEPOSIT INCLUDES BENCH GRAVELS
Comment (Workings): HYDRAULIC. SEVERAL THOUSAND ACRES
Comment (Geology): SLATE BEDROCK
Comment (Production): TWO MEN REMOVED 10 FT OVERBURDEN IN 1939-1940
References
Reference (Deposit): PAGE, N.J, CLARK, A.L., DESBOROUGH, G.A., AND PARKER, R.L., 1973, PLATINUM GROUP METALS, IN BROBST, D.A., AND PRATT, W.P., EDS., UNITED STATES MINERAL RESOURCES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 820, P. 539.
Reference (Deposit): SPENCER, C.H., JR., 1971, STATISTICAL CORRELATION OF PLATINUM METALS WITH HEAVY MINERALS IN STREAM SEDIMENTS OF THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA: SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, M.S THESIS, P. 32.
Reference (Deposit): LOGAN, C.A. 1919, PLATINUM AND ALLIED METALS IN CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU BULLETIN 85, P. 64-65.
Reference (Deposit): CLARK, W.B., 1970, PLATINUM: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MINERAL INFORMATION SERVICE, V. 23, NO. 6, P. 115-123.
Reference (Deposit): AVERILL, C.V., 1941, MINERAL RESOURCES OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 37, NO. 4, P. 515.
Reference (Deposit): PACIFIC SOUTHWEST FIELD COMMITTEE, 1960, NATURAL RESOURCES OF NORTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA, APPENDIX, GEOLOGY, MINERAL RESOURCES, MINERAL INDUSTRIES: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, FIG. 3.
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