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Malheur City Placers

Past Producer in Malheur 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033353
MRDS ID M015673
Record type Site
Current site name Malheur City Placers
Alternate or previous names Jones Placer, Gold Flour Min. Co.
Related records 10201377

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.72658, 44.41708 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Malheur(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bridgeport(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Brogan(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Willow(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management OR)

Bureau of Land Management OR BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Malheur

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 013S 041E 20 SW Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Silt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.72658, 44.41708
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • PAY STREAK OCCURS ON A FALSE CLAY BEDROCK

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Malheur City

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Billiton Minerals Usa, Inc.

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION ESTIMATED AT $150,000 AS OF 1875, WHICH IS LIKELY TO THE TOTAL PRODUCTION TO DATE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • GULCH PLACERS ARE LARGELY EXHAUSTED. WATER IS SCARCE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1901, GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, USGS ANN. REPT. 2, P. 772.

  • Deposit

    1940 RECON ODGMI FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    1940 RECON ODGMI FILE REPOR

  • Production

    REF. 1

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BULK OF EARLY PRODUCTION WAS FROM GULCH PLACERS AT SHASTA GULCH AND RICH GULCH. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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
Updater 01-MAY-1995 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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