Mine detail: Oroville District

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Location

Lat / long: 39.46392, -121.60105

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Platinum
Ore: Gold, Platinum
Gangue: Quartz
Orebody form: Irregular
Discovery year: 1849

Production

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

Geology

Host type:Sand and Gravel

References

DEP10310662
Reference{Deposit:: Doolittle, J.E., 1908, Gold dredging in California: California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 36, p. 68-88.}{Deposit:: Clark, W. B., 1970, Gold districts of California: California Divisions of Mines and Geology Bulletin 193, p. 103-104.}{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. 89-90.}{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:: Unruh, J.R., 1990, Stratigraphy and late Cenozoic deformation in the Oroville area, east-central Sacramento Valley, California: Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Davis, 305 p.}{Deposit:: Winston, W.B., 1910, Gold dredging in California: California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 57, p. 111-158.}
ReporterHiggins, Chris T., Schruben, Paul G.