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Pickett Creek

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040984
MRDS ID M055890
Record type Site
Current site name Pickett Creek
Alternate or previous names Carnegie, Duval and Powell
Related records 10298450

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.53033, 42.47899 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Josephine(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Onion Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Rogue(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(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 Josephine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 035S 007W 33 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Local Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Galice
    Rock description Galice
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.53033, 42.47899
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: NO CINNABAR OBSERVED IN ACCESSIBLE WORKINGS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1931
Discoverer J. M. Farmer, E. T. Carnegie

Mining district

District name Pickett Creek

Land status

Ownership category Federal
Area name Siskiyou National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Frank Melvin
    First year 1963

Comments on the production information

  • 42 LB PRODUCED

Comments on the workings information

  • A SHALLOW SHAFT, 3 SHORT ADITS AND SEVERAL PITS, ALL IN AN AREA ABOUT 100 FT ACROSS 42 LB PRODUCED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., 1963, QUICKSILVER IN OREGON: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, BULL. 55, 223 P., P. 95

  • Deposit

    MERCURY IN OREGON, 1965, USBM IC 8252

  • Deposit

    RAMP, L. AND PETERSON, N.V., 1979, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 100, 45P

  • Production

    BROOKS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RECORD NUMBER (M013507) HAS BEEN MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE. ; INFO.SRC : BAILEY E H

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1976 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-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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