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Connor 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032819
MRDS ID M014581
Record type Site
Current site name Connor Creek Placers
Alternate or previous names Placers Inc. Claims
Related records 10153010

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.1999, 44.54736 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Connor Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Brownlee Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management OR)

Bureau of Land Management OR BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 012S 045E 10 NE Oregon

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

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Colluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.1999, 44.54736
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Bed

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Connor Creek

Comments on the production information

  • EST $100,000 PRODUCTION PRIOR TO 1901. THE GRAVELS HAVE BEEN REWORKED REPEATEDLY SINCE THEN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGEN, W., 1901, THE GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MTNS. OF OREGON, USGS 22ND

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939, ODGMI BULL. 14-A,P.20.

  • Deposit

    WAGNER, N.S., 1954, ODGMI FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    WAGNER, N.S., 1954, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES FILE REPORT.

  • Production

    REFERENCE 1

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GULCH TYPE PLACER

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1979 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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