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Alturas

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Alturas

Town and administrative headquarters of Modoc County, extreme northeast California, USA; population (2000) 2,900. It is situated on the Modoc Plateau, 340 km/210 mi north-northeast of Sacramento, and stands on the Pit River at the head of a broad valley. It is the trade centre for a beef and sheep raising, potato and alfalfa farming, and lumbering area. Alturas serves as the headquarters to the Modoc National Forest, and is a recreational service town. Founded in 1869, it was near the centre of the 1870s Modoc War.



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In Shasta Shasta County County, on Old Oregon Trail from Old 44 Shasta RTPA Drive to College Drive, westerly along Old 02-Shasta Alturas Road to Shasta View, and along College View Drive to Davis Ridge Road.
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The major shareholder of Alturas is Equinox Minerals Limited, a publicly traded company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Symbol:EQN) and the Australian Stock Exchange, which will hold approximately 70% of the Alturas Common Shares.
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