Canyon Creek District Placers

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001712
MRDS ID W016693
Record type District
Current site name Canyon Creek District Placers
Alternate or previous names Jack Blank, Bogard, Empire Gold Dredging and Mining, Gold Hill, Mabble Placer, Round Valley, Big Flat, Blue Rock, Ferris and Marchbank, Marysville Mining Co., Quartz Gulch, St. Marie, Tracy, Western Dredging Co., Prarie Diggings, Humboldt Diggings, Allen, John Long
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Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.96776, 44.43315 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

John Day(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

John Day(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Grant

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

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) -118.96776, 44.43315

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Significant Yes

Mining district

District name CANYON DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1901, GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MTNS. OF OREGON: USGS 22ND ANNUAL REPT., PT. 2, P. 712-720.

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON, ODGMI, BULL. 61 , P. 144 .

Beyond USGS

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