Big Creek-Yaquina Bay-Newport Placer

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Oregon, United States with commodities Iron, Titanium, Metal, Chromium
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. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068336
MRDS ID W001341
Record type Site
Current site name Big Creek-Yaquina Bay-Newport Placer
Related records 10298355

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -124.05815, 44.65813 (WGS84)
Elevation 1

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Newport North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newport(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newport(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Siletz-Yaquina(hydrologic unit)

Northern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
010S 011W 32 SW OF NE Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore
Ilmenite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -124.05815, 44.65813

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • HR.AGE.MV: GREENSTONE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TONS ILMENITE-CHROMITE CONCENTRATE.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • .3 MM GRAIN SIZE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TWENHOFEL 1946 ORE. DEP. GEOL. MIN. IND. BULL 30

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1973 Force, Eric R. 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.