Rough and Ready Creek

Occurrence in Josephine county in Oregon, United States with commodity Nickel
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10177367
MRDS ID M015593
MAS/MILS ID 0410330871
Record type Site
Current site name Rough and Ready Creek
Related records 10033288

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -123.76146, 42.08512 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Josephine(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buckskin Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Illinois(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 Josephine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 040 S 009 W 16 SW Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -123.76146, 42.08512

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. MISC. PAPER 20, 1978,

  • Deposit

    P. 35-37.

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 100, 1979,

  • Deposit

    PLATE 2, NO. 392.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 29-APR-92 Ridenour, James U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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