Mine detail: High Gravel

Previously called 'Osgood'

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Location: Josephine County, Oregon, United States, North America
Lat / long: 42.04732, -123.64087
dep_id: 10032122
mrds_id: M013261
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Minor mineral: Platinum
Trace mineral: Chromium
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Stream Placer
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Chromite, Gold
orebody_fm: STREAM SEDIMENT DEPOSITS
work_type: Surface
model: 119: Placer Au-PGE
conc_proc: Entrapment By Irregularities In Stream Bed
ore_ctrl: Stream Hydraulics
Reporter: Lee, W, Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.), Peterson, Jocelyn A.
hrock_type: Colluvium
tectonic: Klamath Mountains Accreted Terrane
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, TABLE 1.
  • Deposit:: BROOKS, H.C., AND RAMP, LEN, 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN 61, P. 242.
  • 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 INDUSTIRES BULLETIN 14-C, V. 2, SEC. 1, P. 202.
  • Deposit:: SHENON, P.J., 1933, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TAKILMA-WALDO DISTRICT, OREGON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 846-B, P. 183-184.
  • Deposit:: PARKS, H.M., AND SWARTLEY, A.M., 1916, HANDBOOK OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF OREGON: OREGON BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF OREGON, V. 1, NO. 4, P. 120.
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