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Pine Creek Placers

Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032582
MRDS ID M014172
Record type Site
Current site name Pine Creek Placers
Alternate or previous names Elliot Placers, Jim Anderson Placers, John Wyant Placers Separate Records For Wyant and Elliot
Related records 10200319

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.90603, 44.55847 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Brannan Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Burnt(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 011S 039E 35 SW OF SW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • INCLUDES ABOUT 6 MILES OF THE CHANNEL OF PINE CREEK UPSTREAM FROM BURNT RIVER

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) Rhyolite and dacite
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • 15 TO 18 FEET OF COARSE GRAVELS LIE IN THE PRESENT CHANNEL OF PINE CREEK. GOLD IS BELIEVED TO BE IN PART DERIVED FROM REWORKED TERTIARY GRAVELS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Upper Burnt River Area

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • A NUMBER OF COARSE NUGGETS, INCLUDING TWO 14 OUNCE NUGGETS HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM THIS AREA.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939, ODGMI BULL. 14-A, P.102

  • Deposit

    1946 RECON ODGMI FILE REPOR

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PRINCIPAL VALUES OCCURRED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY ON BEDROCK IN THE MAIN CHANNEL.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1980 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-MAY-1995 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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