Ottauquechee/Black River Placer Deposits

Producer in Windsor county in Vermont, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10081192
MRDS ID W033067
Record type Site
Current site name Ottauquechee/Black River Placer Deposits

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -72.72871, 43.5292 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position STREAMS ARE WITHIN A 12 MILE RADIUS OF PLYMOUTH, VT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Windsor(county)

Vermont(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Plymouth(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rutland(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Glens Falls(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Black River-Connecticut River(hydrologic unit)

Upper Connecticut(hydrologic accounting unit)

Connecticut(hydrologic subregion)

New England(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Vermont Windsor

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972
  • Streams Within A 12 Mile Radius of Located Point

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Garnet Gangue
Magnetite Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -72.72871, 43.5292

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • FORMATIONS UNDERLYING STREAMS ARE NOT NECESSARILY SOURCE ROCKS FOR THE DEPOSITS.
  • Formations Underlying Streams Are Not Necessarily Source Rocks For the Deposits.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1855
Discoverer William Hankerson

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • W HANKERSON WAS FIRST TO FIND PLACER GOLD. HE FOUND IT IN READING POND BROOK. IN 1860 HE DISCOVERED GOLD IN THE PLYMOUTH FIVE CORNERS AREA.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORRILL, P. AND CHAFFEE, R.G., 1964, VERMONT MINES AND MINERAL LOCALITIES. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE MUSEUM, HANOVER, NH., 54 P.

  • Deposit

    HENSON M.P., 1982, THIRD LARGEST GOLD PRODUCING STATE IN THE 1850'S: GOLD LADEN HILLS AND STREAMS OF VERMONT: LOST TREASURE, APRIL, V. 7, NO. 4, P. 54-59.

  • Deposit

    PERRY, E. L., 1929, GEOLOGY OF BRIDGEWATER AND PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIPS, VERMONT: VT. STATE GEOLOGISTS 16TH REPORT (1928-1929), P. 62-63.

  • Deposit

    Perkins, G.H., 1932, Marble Industry Of Vermont: Vermont State Geologists 18th Annual Report (1931-1932), 132 P.Perkins, G.H., 1932, Marble Industry Of Vermont: Vermont State Geologists 18th Annual Report (1931-1932), 132 P.

  • Deposit

    Morrill, P. And Chaffee, R., 1964, Vermont Mines And Mineral Locations: Montshire Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire, 50 P.Morrill, P. And Chaffee, R., 1964, Vermont Mines And Mineral Locations: Montshire Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire, 50 P.

  • Deposit

    Dale, T.N., 1914, The Commercial Marbles Of Western Vermont: Vermont State Geologist 9th Annual Report (1913-1914), 123 P.Dale, T.N., 1914, The Commercial Marbles Of Western Vermont: Vermont State Geologist 9th Annual Report (1913-1914), 123 P.

  • Deposit

    Unpublished Company Records; Vermont Marble Co.; Proctor, Vt.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD REPORTED IN THE OTTAUQHECHEE RIVER AND ITS NORTH BRANCH, BLACK RIVER, AND THE BROAD PINNEY HOLLOW, READING POND, BUFFALO AND JEWELL BROOKS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Updater 01-APR-1986 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation
Reporter 01-JUN-1984 McBean, Alan J. (Ratte, Charles A.) Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation
Editor 01-DEC-2002 L. G. Woodruff U.S. Geological Survey checked references; location; commodities; ore materials

Beyond USGS

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