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Carter Creek Divide Claim

Past Producer in Curry county in Oregon, United States with commodities Chromium, Rhodium, Platinum
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098527
MRDS ID M061545
Record type Site
Current site name Carter Creek Divide Claim
Related records 10274331

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.84477, 42.20788 (WGS84)
Elevation 1149
Relative position ABOUT 1.5 MI NORTHWEST OF CANYON PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Curry(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Josephine Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Chetco(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Kalmiopsis Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Curry

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 039S 010W 02 N2 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • IN SISKIYOU NATIONAL FOREST. 4 MI NORTH OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS RIVER AREA. UTM FOR PGE SAMPLE SITE LOCATION PLOTS IN CALIFORNIA. IDENTITY OF THIS DEPOSIT IS IN QUESTION. ORIGINAL ENTRY SUGGESTED THIS MAY BE PART OF SORDY GROUP. PRODUCTION FIGURES IN CARLSON AND OTHERS (1985) SUGGEST IT MAY BE SAD SACK (BLACK PRINCESS), MINE WHICH IS NOT PART OF SORDY GROUP.
  • IN KALMIOPSIS WILDERNESS IN SISKIYOU NATIONAL FOREST

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary
Rhodium Critical Tertiary
Platinum Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Analytical data

Result 14 PPB PT, 26 PPB RH

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 15
USGS model code 8a
Deposit model name Podiform chromite (minor)
Mark3 model number none

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite
    Rock unit name Josephine Ophiolite
    Rock description Josephine Ophiolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shears, Landslides

Ore body information

  • General form MASSIVE LENS, FLOAT

Comments on the geologic information

  • SOME DIORITE AND GABBRO NEARBY. DESCRIPTION GIVEN HERE IS GENERAL FOR CHROME RIDGE AREA FOUND IN WELLS AND OTHERS (1941).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Babyfoot-Little Chetco Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Siskiyou National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    CARLSON AND OTHERS, 1985

  • Deposit

    RAMP, LEN, 1961, CHROMITE IN SOUTHWESTERN OREGON: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN 52, P. 65.

  • Deposit

    RAMP, LEN, SCHLICKER, H.G., AND GRAY, J.J., 1977, GEOLOGY, MINERAL RESOURCES, AND ROCK MATERIAL OF CURRY COUNTY, OREGON: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN 93, P. 30.

  • Deposit

    CARLSON, C.A., AND OTHERS, 1985, ANALYSES FOR PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENTS IN SAMPLES FROM PODIFORM CHROMITE DEPOSITS, CALIFORNIA AND OREGON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-442, 14 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO ORE SEEN IN PLACE IN 1954

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-SEP-1993 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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