Waldo Area Placers

Producer in Josephine county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000925
MRDS ID M013263
Record type District
Current site name Waldo Area Placers
Alternate or previous names The Baily Group, High Gravel, Deep Gravel, Esterly, Cameron, Fry Gulch, Logan, Sailor Gulch, Plataurica, Waldo Placers
Related records 10201118

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.65505, 42.05292 (WGS84)
Relative position PLACERS COVER A LARGE AREA WITHIN TOWNSHIP, ACC URATE TO GENERAL PLACER AREA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Josephine(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

O'Brien(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Illinois(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 Josephine

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Secondary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.65505, 42.05292

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream hydraulics

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Producer
Significant Yes

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RAMP, LEN, AND PETERSON, N.V., 1979, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN 100, P. 30, PL. 2, NO. 415.

  • Deposit

    OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, 1952, OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, SOUTHWESTERN OREGON--JOSEPHINE COUNTY (2D ED.): OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN 14-C, V. 2, SEC. 1, P. 181, 190-192, 194-196, 198-199, 202-203, 206, 211.

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.