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Buck Fork Placers

Occurrence in Douglas county in Oregon, 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095151
MRDS ID M015532
Record type Site
Current site name Buck Fork Placers
Alternate or previous names Upper North Myrtle Creek Placers
Related records 10273918

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.12644, 43.11399 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Douglas(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dodson Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Roseburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Roseburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Umpqua(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Douglas

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 028S 004W 12 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • ALONG NORTH MYRTLE CREEK AND STREAMS TO THE NORTH

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.12644, 43.11399
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • BEDROCK IS DECOMPOSED DIORITE. ; GEOL.DESC: NUGGETS SHOW LITTLE ROUNDING AND ARE GENERALLY ATTACHED TO PIECES OF VEIN QUARTZ.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Myrtle Creek Area

Comments on the production information

  • LEE CREEK AND BUCK FORK PLACERS PRODUCED $150,000 IN GOLD BY 1898; WORKED PERIODICALLY THRU 1941

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 61 , P. 267 - 268

  • Deposit

    RAMP, L., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 75, P. 34

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1978 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) 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

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