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Parkerville and Winterville

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Chromium
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032532
MRDS ID M014096
Record type Site
Current site name Parkerville and Winterville
Alternate or previous names Member of Greenhorn Placers
Related records 10225139

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.41077, 44.69429 (WGS84)
Relative position NEAR SUMPTER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Greenhorn(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Burnt(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 010S 035E 15 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = BOURNE (1972) 1:24000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Chromium Critical Primary

Analytical data

Result FINENESS AVERAGES 900

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.41077, 44.69429
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Gravels Are Capped By Tertiary Volcanic Tuffs And Breccias.

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: GOLD IS CONCENTRATED IN LOWER 3 - 10 FT OF GRAVELS. BED ROCK IS SERPENTINOID GREENSTONE, CUT BY FAULTS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bonanza

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Bill Phiffer

Comments on the production information

  • UP TO 1916 , $145,000 PRODUCED. SUMMER 1963 , HYDRAULIC OF NOZZLES USED; MINING CARRIED OUT 3 MONTHS A YEAR. REMAINING MONTHS SPENT GATHERING & RECOVERING GOLD, AND PREPARING FOR NEXT SEASON. APPROXIMATELY 12 MEN WORKING. APPROXIMATELY 19 TONS OF 43% CR203 WAS PRODUCED FROM SERPENTINE BEDROCK AT WINTERVILLE IN 1942.

Comments on the workings information

  • AT LEAST 76,000 CUBIC YARDS MINED TO 1916. $145,000 PRODUCED-SUMMER 1963. HYDRAULIC MINING CARRIED OUT 3 MONTHS A YEAR. APPROXIMATELY 12 MEN WORKING. APPRO. 19 TONS OF 43% CR2O3 WAS PRODUCED FROM SERPENTINE BEDROCK AT WINTERVILLE IN 1942.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM NEWS OF MIN. IND. AREA 7 JULY 1963, P 2

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J. R., AND HEWETT, D. F., 1916 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE SUMPTER QUAD.: ORE. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., MINERAL RESOURCES OF OREGON, V. 1 , NO. 6 , P. 125 .

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1901, GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON, USGS ANN. REPT. NO. 2, P.703

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONSV. RECORD ( M014064 ) MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1980 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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