Elk River Placers

Producer in Curry county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum, Chromium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000935
MRDS ID M025249
Record type District
Current site name Elk River Placers
Alternate or previous names Big Sunshine, Elkhorn, Fall Creek, Myrtle Groups
Related records 10298416

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -124.34148, 42.70651 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position ON ELK RIVER FROM MOUTH OF BALD MOUNTAIN CREEK UPSTREAM TO MOUTH OF PANTHER CREEK. LOCATION GIVEN IS AT MOUTH OF PLATINUM CREEK; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = PORT ORFORD (1954) 1:24000, ACC WITHIN PLACER AREA ALONG RIVER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Curry(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Father Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Port Orford(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cape Blanco(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sixes(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 Curry

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Secondary
Chromium Critical Tertiary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) -124.34148, 42.70651

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream hydraulics

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RAMP, LEN, SCHLICKER, H.G., AND GRAY, J.J., 1977, GEOLOGY, MINERAL RESOURCES, AND ROCK MATERIAL OF CURRY COUNTY, OREGON: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN 93, P. 36, TABLE 7.

  • Deposit

    OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, 1940, OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, SOUTHWESTERN OREGON--COOS, CURRY, AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN 14-C, V. 1, P. 80-87.

Beyond USGS

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