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Duck Creek Placers

Occurrence 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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032825
MRDS ID M014591
Record type Site
Current site name Duck Creek Placers
Related records 10176889

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.9249, 45.06514 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Duck Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Riggins(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Grangeville(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
Willamette 006S 047E 1 W OF W Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOMESTEAD, ALONG THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF DUCK CREEK. 17 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Analytical data

Result GOLD IS COARSE AND FLAT OR ROUNDED
Result 878 1/2 FINE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.9249, 45.06514
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to bottom 4.27M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: BEDROCK IS ROTTEN GRANITE. GOLD LIES SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE GRAVEL.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Homestead

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - A, P. 60

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-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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