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Idol City Placers

Past Producer in Harney county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Uranium, Mercury
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040242
MRDS ID M054940
Record type Site
Current site name Idol City Placers
Alternate or previous names Trout Creek Placers, Trout Creek Mining Co.
Related records 10249495, 10128326

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.89411, 43.77791 (WGS84)
Relative position 20 MILES NE OF BURNS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Harney(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Devine Ridge North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Stinkingwater Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Burns(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Harney-Malheur Lakes(hydrologic unit)

Oregon Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon Closed Basins(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 Harney

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 021S 032E 04 NW OF NW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • ON TRIBUTARY OF TROUT CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Uranium Primary
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.89411, 43.77791
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: COUNTRY ROCK IS PORPHYRITIC ANDESITE OF PROBABLE LATE MIOCENE AGE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1891

Mining district

District name Harney

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Malheur Natioal Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Trout Creek Mining And Milling Co.

Comments on the production information

  • $50,000

Comments on the workings information

  • PRODUCTION $50,000

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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

    BROOKS, H.C., AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 61, P. 100.

  • Deposit

    PARKS, H. M. AND SWARTLEY, A. M., 1916, HANDBOOK OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF OREGON: OREGON BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, MINERAL RESOURCES OF OREGON, V. 2, NO. 4, P. 273

  • Production

    PARKS AND SWARTLEY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1976 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1981 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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