Upper Applegate Placers

Past Producer in Jackson county in Oregon, United States with commodity Gold
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043341
MRDS ID M062193
Record type Site
Current site name Upper Applegate Placers
Alternate or previous names Alders, Crescent-Pacific, Dffenbacher Ranch, Rippey Ranch, Greenleaf Ranch, Hamilton Ranch, Souther Oregon Mining, Kleinhammer Ranch, Mc Kee, Bratner, Applegate Dam
Related records 10298422

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.21753, 42.08094 (WGS84)
Relative position APPLEGATE RIVER FROM PROVOLT UPSTREAM TO COPPER.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Carberry Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Applegate(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Jackson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 040S 004W 19 NW OF NE Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • NW 1/4 NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.21753, 42.08094

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private
Area name Rogue River National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • ITEMS 1 AND 2 FOR THE APPLEGATE DAM PROJECT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP, L. 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 61, P.241

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1943, ODGMI BULL. 14-C, VOL. 2, SEC. 2, PP.150-194

  • Deposit

    GRAY, J.J. AND OTHERS, 1981, MINERAL INDUSTRY IN OREGON; OREGON GEOLOGY, VOL. 43, NO. 3, P.33

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CHANNEL GRAVELS
Deposit GOLD RECOVERED AS A BYPRODUCT DURING CONSTRUCTION OF THE APPLEGATE DAM NEAR COPPER.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1978 Smith, Roscoe M. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-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.