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Minor podiform chromite deposit, 17 of 22 in Butte county (in California)
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| Other names | Lime Saddle, Iron Point, Curtis |
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| Country | United States |
| State or province | California |
| Geographic location: | 39°41'37"N,
121°34'14"W (-121.570556, 39.693611) |
| Geographic context: | (click for info) |
| Deposit type | minor podiform chromite |
| Model type | Minor Podiform |
| Deposit form | pods |
| Ore type | Metallurgical |
| Age of deposit | Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic or older (204±2 Ma U-Pb zircon on leucodiorite) |
| Age (m.y.) | 204million years |
| Area of deposit | 111.63sq m |
| Ore body length | 18.3m |
| Ore body width | 6.1m |
| Mineralogy | chromite |
| Host rock type | serpentine |
| Paleotectonic setting | suprasubduction |
| Ophiolite zone | tectonite |
| Deposits < 10km | podiform chromite |
| Rocks within 5km | serpentine harzburgite amphibolite schist phyllite slate quartzite graywacke metabasalt metadacite metarhyolite basalt andesite andesite tuff breccia andesite mudflow andesite tuff andesite breccia granite granodiorite monzonite diorite alluvium |
| Geologic map unit | -121.570555555556, 39.6936111111111 |
| Nearby scientific data | Find additional scientific data near this location |
| Discovery date | 1916 | |
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| Startup date | 1916 | |
| Tonnage | 0.000528 | million metric tons |
| Mine depth | 12 | m |
| Ore depth | 0 | m |
| Cr2O3 grade | 41 | percent |
| Fe % | 9.93 | percent |
| Cr:Fe ratio | 2.61 | |
| Si2O2 % | 6.86 | percent |
| Comments | Mined out. Fiddle Creek Complex between Western and Central belts. Butte County. |
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| References | Burnett, J.L., and Jennings, C.W., 1962, Geologic map of California, Chico sheet: California Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:250,000. Rynearson, G.A., 1951, Chromite deposits in the northern Sierra Nevada, California (Placer, Nevada, Sierra, Yuba, Butte, and Plumas counties), in Geological investigations of chromite in California, Part 3--Sierra Nevada: California Division of Mines Bulletin 134, pt. 3, ch. 5, 321 p. Saleeby, J.B., Shaw, H.F., Niemeyer, S., Moores, E.M., and Edelman, S.H., 1989, U/Pb, Sm/Nd, and Rb/Sr geochronological and isotopic study of northern Sierra Nevada ophiolitic assemblages, California: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 102, p. 205-220. |