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Sixes River Placers

Producer in Curry county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum, Chromium, Mercury, Iridium
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109318
MRDS ID M013595
Record type Site
Current site name Sixes River Placers
Alternate or previous names Inman, Guerin, Little Otter, Smith & Robinson, Wagner, Wallace & Hanly, Way, Thompson, Flat, Hydro Sixes, Otter Creek, Elgin
Related records 10152598, 10152646, 10176864, 10200937, 10273986, 10274463, 10298516

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -124.31785, 42.80398 (WGS84)
Relative position NE1/4 SE1/4

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Curry(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Butler(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Port Orford(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cape Blanco(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sixes(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(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 Curry

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 032S 014W 11 NE OF SE Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • MAIN FORK AND SOUTH FORK OF SIXES RIVER.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Secondary
Chromium Critical Tertiary
Mercury Tertiary
Iridium Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -124.31785, 42.80398
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RAMP, L. AND OTHERS, 1977, GEOLOGY, MINERAL RESOURCES AND ROCK MATERIAL OF CURRY COUNTY, OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 93, P.36

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 61, P.182

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1940, ODGMI BULL. 14-C, VOL. 1, PP. 80 - 90

  • Production

    DILLER (1903)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BENCH AND STREAM PLACERS
Deposit SEPARATE RECORDS FOR CORBIN AND DIVELBLISS #2

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1974 Lee, 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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