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Milton Steinmetz Property

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032810
MRDS ID M014561
Record type Site
Current site name Milton Steinmetz Property
Alternate or previous names Underwood Placer, Pine Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.1913, 44.96153 (WGS84)
Relative position 6 MILES NORTH OF HALFWAY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jimtown(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Brownlee Reservoir(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
007S 045E 10 S OF S Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • 6 MILES N. OF HALFWAY.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.1913, 44.96153
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cornucopia

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Donald And David Steinmetz

Comments on the workings information

  • MC DONALD BROS TESTING BY CUTTING TRENCHES TO BEDROCK 65 FEET BELOW SURFACE H & H MUGLS. MAKING TESTS IN 1963 SMALL INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION; PROBABLY A FEW HUNDRED OZ AU TOTAL. SOME PRODUCTION IN MID-1970'S

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINING WORLD, 1960 , OCT. VOL. 22 , NO. 10 , P. 92 .

  • Deposit

    ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL, 1963 , VOL. 164 , JULY, P. 140 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONSV. RECORD ( M014178 ) MERGED INTO THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM OREGON FILE. MINING WORLD REFERENCES COULD NOTBE FOUND DURING UPDATE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1979 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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