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Little Applegate Placers

Producer in Jackson 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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109754
MRDS ID M062247
Record type Site
Current site name Little Applegate Placers
Alternate or previous names Kleinhammer, Merrick

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.97446, 42.15594 (WGS84)
Relative position LOWER PART OF YALE AND GROUSE CREEKS AND LITTLE APPLEGATE RIVER DOWNSTREAM FROM THE MOUTH OF GLADE CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sterling Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Applegate(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Jackson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 039S 002W 20 SW OF SW OF SW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SW COR

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result REPORTEDLY TESTED 0.20 DOLLARS/YARD IN 1939. (0.006 OZ/TON)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.97446, 42.15594
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 3.66M
    Width 91.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • AREA AT BUNCOM EXTENSIVELY WORKED IN LATE 1800'S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1943, ODGMI BULL. 14-C, VOL. 2, SEC. 2, 208P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CHANNEL AND BENCH GRAVELS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1978 Smith, Roscoe M. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1981 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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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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