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California · Del Norte County

Sunrise Claim

Unconfirmed Iron Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped adit

Key facts

State
California
County
Del Norte
Mining district
Gordon Mountain Area
Development status
Past Producer
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Iron
Verification
Unconfirmed

Also known as

  • Sunrise No.1&2

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

  • Adit — documented in 1 source record.
    USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 1 adit symbol
  • Adit : Gasquet , 1981
View individual source records (3)

Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Adit
    Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
  • Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
  • MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type

Verification

Unconfirmed

Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.

Why it's listed

Source records document both underground and surface mining.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Past Producer

Operators / organizations

  • Lv Tulare And E V Tulare(Last Operators · Historical operator · 1976
  • U.S. Forest Service - Six Rivers National Forest · Source-reported owner · 1976

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Chromite
  • Olivine
  • Pyroxene
  • Serpentine
  • Uvarovite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Type: Historical mapped physical features

Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6

Supports:

  • mapped adit symbols (1)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

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