1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Auburn Placers

Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106869
MRDS ID M015692
Record type Site
Current site name Auburn Placers
Alternate or previous names Includes Blue Canyon and California Gulch
Related records 10159780

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.94771, 44.69958 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blue Canyon(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)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management OR)

Bureau of Land Management OR BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 010S 039E 7 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.94771, 44.69958
ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ERODED TERTIARY LAKE BEDS CONSTITUTE THE BEDROCK AT AUBURN, THE BEDROCK CALIFORNIA GULCH IS COMPRISED OF PRE-TERTIARY ARGILLITES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • ESTIMATED TO BE SUBSTANTIALLY LESS THAN THAT WHICH WAS RECOVERED FROM THE CANYON CITY PLACERS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1901, GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON; USGS ANN. REPT. NO. 22, P. 653

  • Production

    LINDGREN (1901)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLACER GROUND AT AUBURN WAS DISCOVERED IN 1862 AND SUPPORTED A CAMP OF SEVERAL THOUSAND INHABITANTS FOR SEVERAL YEARS. GRAVELS HAVE BEEN SPORADICALLY REWORKED SINCE THE 1890'S. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1980 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.

Maps centered on this site