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Knudson & Myers

Past Producer in Skamania county in Washington, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047848
MRDS ID M700176
Record type Site
Current site name Knudson & Myers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.79646, 46.3462 (WGS84)
Elevation 738
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 1.75 MI NORTHEAST OF SUMMIT OF MCCOY PEAK, Estimated At Confluence Of Scamp And Mccoy Creeks

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Skamania(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

McCoy Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Adams(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Yakima(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Cowlitz(hydrologic unit)

Lower Columbia(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Gifford Pinchot 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 Washington Skamania

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 010N 008E 15 SW4 Washington

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR CONFLUENCE OF MCCOY AND SCAMP CREEKS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 151
USGS model code 25d
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Sado
Mark3 model number 28

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Mccoy Creek Stock
    Rock description Mccoy Creek Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Eocene-Oligocene volcanic rocks
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEINS
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  • General form VEINS
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Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name St. Helens District - Camp Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name In Gifford-Pinchot National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • PLACER OPERATIONS IN THE 1930'S RECOVERED UNKNOWN AMOUNTS OF COARSE ROUGH GOLD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD BEARING QUARTZ STRINGERS, AND PLACER GOLD
Deposit LOCATION MAP AVAILABLE, MOEN (1977) ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-81 Caress, Mary E. (Evarts, Russ) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-92 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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