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Raspberry Creek

Producer in Jackson county in Oregon, United States with commodity Asbestos
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109750
MRDS ID M061914
Record type Site
Current site name Raspberry Creek
Related records 10274294

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.04698, 42.61315 (WGS84)
Elevation 549

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

McConville Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canyonville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Rogue(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 Jackson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 034S 003W 15 NE OF SW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4 SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Asbestos Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Tremolite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.04698, 42.61315
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Between Serpentine And Metavolcanics

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold Hill

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO OPEN CUTS ABOUT 10 FEET DEEP

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF OREGON, 1969, ODGMI BULL. 64, P.191

  • Deposit

    BRIGHT, J.H. AND RAMP, L., 1965, OREGON'S ASBESTOS POTENTIAL; THE ORE BIN; VOL. 27, NO. 3, P.52

  • Deposit

    PAGE, N.J. AND OTHERS, 1977, PRELIMINARY RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE WIMER QUADRANGLE, OREGON; USGS GEOL. MAP MF-848

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-848, 1977.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1978 Smith, Roscoe M. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-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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