The North Fork Mine is a gold mine located in Grant county, Oregon.
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Mine Info
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North Fork Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: North Fork Mine
Secondary: Klopp
Secondary: Dadum
Secondary: David West Placers
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Oregon
County: Grant
District: North Fork
Land Status
Administrative Organization: Umatilla National Forest
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Columbia Plateau
Physiographic Section: Blue Mountain Section
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: GOLD IS ABOUT 700 FINE
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Production): $350,000 IN GOLD
Comment (Workings): VOLUME OF GRAVEL WORKED IS AT LEAST 6,800,000 CUBIC YARDS. $350,000 IN GOLD
Comment (Geology): THE DEPOSIT IS A PARTIALLY REWORKED TERMINAL MORAINE OF THE PLEISTOCENE NORTH FORK GLACIER. PARDEE AND HEWITT (1916) SUGGEST THAT GLACIER HAD DISRUPTED AN OLDER PLACER DEPOSIT WHICH WAS IN PART DERIVED FROM THE REWORKING OF YET OLDER BENCH GRAVELS AT CRANE FLATS AND TROUT MEADOWS. ; GEOL.DESC: GRAVEL BED IS COMPACT UNASSORTED MASS OF SANDY CLAY AND ROUNDED TO ANGULAR COBBLES AND BOULDERS; COVERS ONE SQUARE MILE, IN PLACES 60 FT. DEEP, DEPOSIT IS TERMINAL PORTION OF OLD DRIFT. LAYED DOWN BY NORTH FORK GLACIER.
Comment (Deposit): RECORDS ( M014803 ), ( W017018 ) AND ( M014802 ) MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM OREGON FILE
References
Reference (Deposit): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - B, P. 101 .
Reference (Deposit): PARDEE, J. R., AND HEWETT, D. F., 1916 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE SUMPTER QUAD.: ORE. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., MINERAL RESOURCES OF OREGON, V. 1 , NO. 6 , P. 122
Oregon Gold
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