The Idol City Placers is a uranium, gold, and mercury mine located in Harney county, Oregon.
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Mine Info
Elevation:
Commodity: Uranium, Gold, Mercury
Lat, Long: 43.77806, -118.89306
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Idol City Placers MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Idol City Placers
Secondary: Trout Creek Placers
Secondary: Trout Creek Mining Co.
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Primary: Gold
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Oregon
County: Harney
District: Harney
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Administrative Organization: Malheur Natioal Forest
Holdings
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Workings
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Ownership
Owner Name: Trout Creek Mining And Milling Co.
Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1891
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Columbia Plateau
Physiographic Section: Harney Section
Physiographic Detail: High Lava Plains
Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
Comment (Location): ON TRIBUTARY OF TROUT CREEK
Comment (Production): $50,000
Comment (Workings): PRODUCTION $50,000
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: COUNTRY ROCK IS PORPHYRITIC ANDESITE OF PROBABLE LATE MIOCENE AGE.
References
Reference (Deposit): MERCURY IN OREGON: USBM IC 8252
Reference (Deposit): FREDERICK, F., 1945, STATE OF OREGON MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOL. AND MIN. INDUSTRIES, SCALE 1:1,000,000
Reference (Deposit): BROOKS, H.C., AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 61, P. 100.
Reference (Deposit): PARKS, H. M. AND SWARTLEY, A. M., 1916, HANDBOOK OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF OREGON: OREGON BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, MINERAL RESOURCES OF OREGON, V. 2, NO. 4, P. 273
Reference (Production): PARKS AND SWARTLEY
Oregon Gold
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