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Middle Fork Placers

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Host and associated rocks
  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 10033372
MRDS ID M015701
Record type Site
Current site name Middle Fork Placers
Alternate or previous names Golden Dredging Company, Timms Dredging Co., Vincent Creek Placers, Kreiger, Baker, China Diggings
Related records 10298950

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.57661, 44.62235 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bates(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Fork John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Malheur 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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 011S 034E 11 SW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • TRIBUTARIES AND MAIN STEM OF THE MIDDLE FORK OF THE JOHN DAY RIVER BELOW BATES

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.57661, 44.62235
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Greenhorn

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Malheur Natioal Forest

Comments on the production information

  • 1939-1942 PRODUCTION IS FOR THE TIMMS GOLD DREDGING COMPANY'S OPERATION 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BATES

Comments on the workings information

  • BOTH BUCKET AND DRAGLINE DREDGES HAVE OPERATED ON THE MIDDLE FORK BELOW BATES. 1939-1942 PRODUCTION IS FOR THE TIMMS GOLD DREDGING COMPANY'S OPERATION 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BATES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WAGNER, N.S., 1945, MIDDLE FORK OF THE JOHN DAY PLACERS; ODGMI FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941, ODGMI BULL. 14-B, P. 81, 94, 95

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 61, P. 44.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RECORD NUMBER (M014793) HAS BEEN MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE. SEPARATE RECORDS FOR CHINA DIGGINGS AND VINCENT CREEK PLACERS. ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 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

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