Mine detail: Pilliken Mine

Previously called 'PillikanFlagstaff Hills/Pilliken'

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Location

Lat / long: 38.78209, -121.09273

Resource(M)

Primary: Chromium
Tertiary: Iron
Other material: Chromite, Magnesite, Olivine, Serpentine, Uvarovite
Discovery year: 1853

Production

Operation type: Surface
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1915

Geology

References

MRDSM100577
MAS60170006
DEP10236310
Reference{Deposit:: CATER,F.W.,JR.,ET AL., GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF CHROMITE}{Deposit:: IN CALIFORNIA, CHAPTER 4, CHROMITE DEPOSITS OF EL}{Deposit:: DORADO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA., CALIF. DIV. OF MINES BULL.}{Deposit:: 134, PART III, OCTOBER 1951.}{Deposit:: CARLSON,D.W., PILLIKEN MINE. PRELIMINARY REPORT NO. 8, APRIL}{Deposit:: 1953, EL DORADO COUNTY.}{Deposit:: CLARK,L.D., STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF PART OF THE}{Deposit:: WESTERN METAMORPHIC BELT,CALIFORNIA,U.S.G.S. PROF.}{Deposit:: PAPER 410, 1964.}{Deposit:: LINDGREN,WALDMER,TURNER, U.S.G.S. GEOL.ATLAS,PLACERVILLE,}{Deposit:: SACREMENTO,AND JACKSON FOLIO REPRINTS (NOS.3,5,AND 11),}{Deposit:: P.4, 1984, REPRINTED 1914.}{Deposit:: MCMILLAN,W.D., PRELIMINARY REPORT ON U.S. CHROME MINES,}{Deposit:: PILLIKEN CHROME DISTRICT, EL DORADO COUNTY; US BUMINES}{Deposit:: PRELIMINARY REPORT, 13P., AUGUST, 1941.}{Deposit:: WELLS,F.G., CHROMITE DEPOSITS OF THE PILLIKEN AREA, EL}{Deposit:: DORADO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA; U.S.G.S. BULL 922-0, 1940.}{Deposit:: WETZEL,N.,NOKLEBERG,W., PLATE TECTONIC AND STRUCTURAL}{Deposit:: RELATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN AND THE DEFORMATION OF THE}{Deposit:: WESTERN METAMORPHIC BELT ALONG THE MARGIN OF THE}{Deposit:: CENTRAL SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, GEOL.SOC.OF AMER.}{Deposit:: ABSTRACT, 72ND ANNUAL MEETING, VOL.8,NO.3,FEB.}{Deposit:: 1976.}{Deposit:: WETZEL,N.,GALE.G., THE PILLIKEN CHORMITE DEPOSIT EL DORADO}{Deposit:: COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, US BUMINES MAS DEPOSIT REPORT,}{Deposit:: UNPUBLISHED, JUNE 1980.}
ReporterWetzel, Nicholas