Susanville - Placers

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Mercury
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040217
MRDS ID M054907
Record type Site
Current site name Susanville - Placers
Alternate or previous names Elk Creek, Middle Fork, Deep Creek, Buck Gulch, Timms Gold Dredging Co.
Related records 10128644

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.79745, 44.70902 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Susanville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Fork John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Malheur 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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 010S 033E 02 SE Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • PLACER GROUNDS LOCATED ALONG MIDDLE FORK OF JOHN DAY RIVER AND THE LOWER REACHES OF BUCK, DEEP, AND ELK CREEKS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result CREEKS USUALLY CONTAIN COARSE GOLD, 865 FINE

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.79745, 44.70902

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: BASALT CAPPING COVER SOME OF OLDER PLACERS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Malheur Natioal Forest

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION ESTIMATED AT $1,100,000, WITH THE ELK CREEK DRAINAGE BEING THE MOST PRODUCTIVE. IN 1913, GEORGE ARMSTRONG FOUND AN 80.4 OZ NUGGET ON BUCK GULCH.1933-1939 PRODUCTION FIGURES ARE FOR THE TIMMS GOLD DREDGING COMPANY'S OPERATION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., 1963, QUICKSILVER IN OREGON: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, BULL. 55, 223 P.

  • Deposit

    MERCURY IN OREGON: USBM IC 8252

  • Deposit

    FREDERICK, F., 1945, STATE OF OREGON MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOL. AND MIN. INDUSTRIES, SCALE 1:1,000,000

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941; ODGMI BULL. 14-B, P.147

  • Deposit

    5) BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 61, P.106

  • Production

    BROOKS AND RAMP, 1968

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RECORD ( W016695 ) HAS BEEN MERGED WITH THIS RECORD, AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE. SEPARATE RECORDS FOR BUCK CREEK, TIMMS GOLD DREDGING CO. ; INFO.SRC : BAILEY E H

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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