Contact Group

Occurrence in Josephine county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041009
MRDS ID M055918
Record type Site
Current site name Contact Group
Related records 10274028

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.52949, 42.50149 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Josephine(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Galice(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canyonville(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 28 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Mercury Primary

Analytical data

Result TEN SAMPLES AVERAGED 0.17 OZ/TON AU AND 0.15 OZ/TON AG

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.52949, 42.50149

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NE
    Dip 75 SE
    Width 38.1M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1930
Discoverer E. T. Carnegie

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHORT ADITS AND SURFACE CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK: ODGMI BULL. 14-C, VOL. 2, SEC. 1, P. 68

  • Deposit

    RAMP, L. AND PETERSON, N. Y., 1979, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 100, TABLE 1, NO. 150

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.