The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-19
ocearrence in united states.


Turning to the United States he reports
the occurrence of platinum in small guam
titles in gold sand of California and Ore
gon. and notes the actual or the reported
occurrence of the metal in Arizona. Col
erado. Georgia. Idaho, Montana, New York,
North Carolina. and Pennsylvania. He
notes also the reported occurrence Of pla-
tfnum in Mexico. Honduras. and Santo
Domingo. and its reported occurrence in
veins in Brazil. He discusses the placer
deposits OF Colombia in the Ell Choco dis
triet on the San Juan River, on the west
ern watershed Colombia now ranks as
the second producer of commercial pIati-
mum
A few scales of platinum have been dis
covered IN gold-bearing sands at ouaIi-
plan, in Siebenburgen, Austria. In
France. also. platinum is occasionally
seen at Morbihan, in Brittany; at Gard,
in Cevennes; in several localities in the
departments Of Charente and Deux-
Sevres: On the Chapeau Mountain, near
ChateIard, Hautes AIpes; near Presles. IN
Savoy, and in few other places. In
Germany it is reported in the Hartz
Mountains. from the Siebengebirge. and
from Frieberg. In Great Britain a few
grains of platinum have been observed in
the goid-bearing sands OF Wicklow, Ire
land. on the Island Of Jersey, and in the
sands of the River Urr, Kirkcudbright-
shire None of these sources furnish COM
mercfaI platinum
Commercial Platinum Comes From Russia
Nearly all the commercial platinum
comes from Russia, where the productive
districts lie along the eastern watershed
Of the Trails, in the eastern portion OF
Perm, in Rasan, and on the western wa
tershed farther south A few years ago
the greater part OF the platinum came
from the district of Nijni-Tagiisk. nearly
due east Of the city OF Perm. but now the
largest supply is obtained IN the Coro-
bIagodat anc Bisersk districts. about $50
miles farther north and northeast of the
town of Nijni-TagiIsk
From he watershed Of the Trails two
small rivers. the Iss and the Vega, flow
eastward and join the Fura River, and
the productive platinum ground, about
1900 square miles IN area. is found along
the Iss and the Vega. and on the Tura-
The platinum is found in gravel in the
pIacers, both il the beds OF the streams
and above water level. Platinum is re-
ported in a number of other places in the
Russisn empire.
Platinum was found in small quantities
in Spain. near Seville. and it has been
found also IN Borneo. in Burma, in Japan,
in New South Wales. in New Zealand. ard
In Tasmania.
Productive Deposits in California.
With regard te platinum In the United
States, Prof Kemp says that the most
productive deposits are in California. in
Trinity eounty. along the Trinity River.
three to four miles below Junction City;
but that the annual product amounts to
only a few ounces He quotes from a
paper by Dr. David T Day, summarizing
tie results Of careful investigation of
the platinum resources Of California.
DR.. Day says that the Pacific beach
mines Of Gold Bluff. Arcata. Big Lagoon,
stone Lagoon. Little River. and Crescent
City, California, and of Gold Beach and
Port Oxford. Coos county, Oregon, have
all yielded platinum in commercially up
preeiabIe quantities: that most Of the
platinum product has come from inland
diggings, where the grains are compar-
ativeIy coarse, and that it has become
we'll known in the plaeers of the Amer
lean River, and in PIumas, Shasta. Trim