Mine detail: Cherokee Mine

Previously called 'Spring Valley'

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Location

Lat / long: 39.64016, -121.54712

Resource(B)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Platinum, Diamond
Ore: Gold, Diamond, Platinum
Gangue: Quartz
Orebody form: Irregular
Discovery year: 1854

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: Stream placer
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Sand and Gravel

References

DEP10310601
Reference{Deposit:: Brown, D.L. and Murphy, W.M, 2005, Transport of total and dissolved mercury from the Cherokee watershed, Sacramento River basin, northern California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, no. 4, p. 104-105.}{Deposit:: Clark, W.B., 1970, Gold districts of California: California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin 193, p. 36-37.}{Deposit:: Creely, R.S., Geology of the Oroville Quadrangle, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin 184, 86 p.}{Deposit:: Helley, E.J. and Harwood, DS., 1985, Geologic map of the late Cenozoic deposits of the Sacramento Valley and northern Sierra foothills, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1790, scale 1:62,500.}{Deposit:: Lindgren, W., 1911, Tertiary gravels of the Sierra Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 73, p. 86-87.}{Deposit:: Logan, C.A., 1930, Butte County: California State Mining Bureau, 26th Report of the State Mineralogist, p. 387-389.}{Deposit:: Saucedo, G.J. and Wagner, D.L., 1992, Geologic map of the Chico Quadrangle, California: California Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology Regional Geologic Map Series, Map No. 7A, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Waring, C.A., 1919, Butte County: California State Mining Bureau, 15th Annual Report of the State Mineralogist, p. 209-210.}
ReporterHiggins, Chris T., Schruben, Paul G.