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Gaines Property

Occurrence in Jackson county in Oregon, United States with commodity Clay
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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. Mining district
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032346
MRDS ID M013823
Record type Site
Current site name Gaines Property
Alternate or previous names Location No. 38
Related records 10152827

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.85336, 42.68038 (WGS84)
Relative position SW1/4

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Trail(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Crater Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Rogue(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 033S 001W 20 SW Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: THE COUNTRY ROCK APPEARS TO BE ALTERED TUFF OR RHYOLITE. THE CLAY IS EXPOSED NEAR THE WEST FORK OF TRAIL CREEK AND WAS SAMPLED IN A ROAD CUT ADJACENT TO THE STREAM BED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Southwestern Oregon

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Harvey J Gagnon

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STATE OF ORE. DEPT. OF GEOL & MIN INDUSTRIES, BULL. #6, PRELIMINARY REPORT OF SOME OF THE REFRACTORY CLAYS OF WESTERN OREGON, BY HEWITT WILSON AND RAY C. TREASHER, 1938, PG. 80

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1974 Lee, W U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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