Johnson Creek Placers

Producer in Coos county in Oregon, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036452
MRDS ID M025257
Record type Site
Current site name Johnson Creek Placers
Alternate or previous names Anchor, Daisy, Schiller, Big Slide
Related records 10200302, 10249558

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -124.10951, 42.7612 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Coos(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

China Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Port Orford(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cape Blanco(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Coquille(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Coos

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 032S 012W 28 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -124.10951, 42.7612

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Powers

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Siskiyou National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BALDWIN, E.M. AND OTHERS, 1973, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF COOS COUNTY, OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 80, PP. 56 & 58

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 80, 1973, P. 56.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1981 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.