Baker & Son Placer

Past Producer in White county in Georgia, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10084702
MRDS ID W102130
Record type Site
Current site name Baker & Son Placer
Alternate or previous names Will Hood/Old T., Leadford/Oliver/Mingo/Glover/Flennigen/Bell/S.J.Cox/Cox Bottom Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -83.7763, 34.63072 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White(county)

Georgia(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cowrock(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Toccoa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Greenville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Chattahoochee(hydrologic unit)

Apalachicola(hydrologic accounting unit)

Apalachicola(hydrologic subregion)

South Atlantic-Gulf(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Georgia White

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • Some Placer Working

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GA GS BULL. 4-A

  • Deposit

    Yeates, W.S., Mccallie, S.W., And King, F.P., 1896, A Preliminary Report On The Gold Deposits Of Georgia: Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin 4a, 542 P.Yeates, W.S., Mccallie, S.W., And King, F.P., 1896, A Preliminary Report On The Gold Deposits Of Georgia: Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin 4a, 542 P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1983 Whitlow, S. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 01-NOV-2002 Woodruff, Laurel G. U.S. Geological Survey commodity codes; updated references

Beyond USGS

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