The Boiler Pit Mine is a mine located in Placer county, California at an elevation of 3,799 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 3,799 Feet (1,158 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 39.1108, -120.76500
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Boiler Pit Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Boiler Pit Mine
Secondary: Sugar Pine Chrome Mine
Secondary: Victory Chrome Co Deposit
Commodity
Tertiary: Chromium
Tertiary: Iron
Location
State: California
County: Placer
District: Damascus
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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: State Lease
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Victory Chrome Co (Last Operator
Info Year: 1976
Owner Name: U.S. Forest Service - Tahoe National Forest
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: California
Info Year: 1976
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: Serpentine
Unknown: Pyroxene
Comments
Comment (Production): PRODUCTION 1000+ TONS,MOSTLY WW1 ORE AVERAGED 45 PERCENT CR2 CR/FE UNKNOWN. RESERVES NOT KNOWN,BUT DEPOSIT MAY NOT BE WOR CDMG FIELD VISIT 2 DEC 1975. DEPOSIT WAS LARGEST DEPOSIT OF PINE CHROME MINE (WW1) AND WORKEDBY VICTORY CHROME CO. (WW2) INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MATRIX CALCULATIONS. ANALYSIS BY CDMG IN 1976 GAVE FOLLOWING PERCENTAGES-DISSEMIN E=S102 03.90,CR2O3 54.08,FEO 13.21,TOTAL FE 16.72,AL203 07.5 4.09,CR/FE 2.85.
References
Reference (Deposit): RYNEARSON,GA,1953 CAL DIV MINES BULL 134,PT 3,CHAP5,PP 209-
Reference (Deposit): BRADLEY,WW 1918 CAL ST MINING BUR BULL 76,MN&CR IN CAL P.16
Reference (Deposit): WARING,CA. 1917 UNPUB FIELD REPT PLACER CO NOS.235 AND 273
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