Stices Gulch Placers

Past Producer in Baker 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098340
MRDS ID M015678
Record type Site
Current site name Stices Gulch Placers
Related records 10249492

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.86964, 44.63875 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bowen Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Powder(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 010S 040E 31 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.86964, 44.63875

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • BEDROCK IS TERTIARY RHYOLITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Baker

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WAGNER, N.S., 1949, STICES GULCH PLACERS; ODGM: FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    1949 RECON ODGMI FILE REPOR

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PAY CHANNEL IS ABOUT 20 FEET WIDE.
Deposit YARDAGE IS TOO SMALL AND VALUES TOO ERRATIC TO JUSTIFY WORKING ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1979 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.