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Oakwood Placer Mining Co.

Producer in Placer county in California, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032006
MRDS ID M012047
Record type Site
Current site name Oakwood Placer Mining Co.
Related records 10236761

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.27493, 38.96183 (WGS84)
Relative position SIX MILES NORTH OF LINCOLN - SURFACE OF PROPERTY CROSSED BY BRANCHES OF COON CREEK AND DOTY RAVINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Placer(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lincoln(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Placer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 013N 006E 22,23,25,26,27,28 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.27493, 38.96183
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: PROPERTY LIES AT THE EXTREME WESTERN EXPOSURES OF THE BEDROCK FORMATIONS, NEAR AND ON THE OLD IONE SHORE LINE, AND WITHIN A MILE OF THE FLOOR OF THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY. THE GRAVEL REPORTED TO BE 6 TO 18 FT. DEEP AND HAS A SHALLOW SOIL CAPPING.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • 1935 PRODUCTION.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORK BEGAN 4/1/35 - DRAGLINE DREDGE WITH 1 1/2 CU. YD. BUCKET ON CAT TREADS; BARGE CARRIED OTHER MACHINERY FOR RECOVERY OF GOLD. TEN MEN WORKING AND 1500 CU. YD MATERIAL WASHED DAILY. SECTIONS SHOWN ABOVE DIFFER WITH SECTIONS SHOWN IN TEXT BUT ARE THOSE SHOWN AS DREDGED AREAS ON TOPO MAP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOL. V. 32, NO. 1, 1936, P. 83

  • Deposit

    USGS FOLIO 5, SACRAMENTO

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROBABLY PART OF THIS AREA IS THAT WORKED BY SCHWARTZ & MITCHELL IN 1947 IN DOTY RAVINE - DOM BULL. 142, P. 89-90

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey

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