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โ‡ฑ Chromite from Rock Creek, Waldo Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA


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Chromite from
Rock Creek, Waldo Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA

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Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Chromite
Formula:Fe2+Cr23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chromite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rock Creek, Waldo Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:473301
Long-form Identifier:1:3:473301:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Chromite
1.4km (0.9 miles) โ“˜Errie; Clarence; etc. Occurrence, Waldo Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) โ“˜Chrome Dome Occurrence, Takilma Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) โ“˜Chrome King Occurrence (Fattig), Waldo Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) โ“˜Gods Little Area Occurrence, Waldo Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) โ“˜Cat Bird Claim, Waldo Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) โ“˜Chrome Prospect (Dick and Dick Reynolds; Kerby No. 181), Waldo Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) โ“˜Nickel Ridge Group, Waldo Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) โ“˜Molly Group, Waldo Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) โ“˜Last Drink No. 1 Occurrence (Blue Bucket No. 5), Waldo Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) โ“˜Esterly Mine (Llano de Oro Mine; Cameron Placer Mine; Logan Placer Mine; Simmons Placer Mine), O'Brien, Takilma Mining District, Josephine County, Oregon, USA
References
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All Rights Are Reserved JACKSON COUNTY LIBRARY SERVICES MEOi-ORO OREGON 97501 SIDVASS VARARML YT UUOS...Southern Oregon? Minerals in Southern Oregon North West Oregon's Lost Mining Districts The Mining Law and...You The Mining Law of 1866 When Chrome Was King Humbug Creek A Rich Strike At Rich Gulch Mining in Jackson...Jackson County in 1870 Mining in Josephine County in 1870 Galice Gold Enos Rhoten: The Pocket Hunter Rich...Rich Discoveries on Silver Creek Great Gobs of Gold Abound The Sudden Disappearance of Gus Lindholm Photo
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Vol. 21, No.7 July 1959 61 Portland, Oregon STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES...Head Office: 1069 State Office Bldg., Portland 1, Oregon Telephone: CApitol 6-2161, Ext. 488 Field Offices...the U. S. Bureau of Mines give a total val ue for Oregon minerals produced in 1958 of $45,053,000, which...- - - - - - - ' - - - - - - - - - - - - , . the mining and metallurgical industries in the State rose...wage earners who are employed full time in the mining and metallurgi cal industries, since firms with
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bibliography of Klamath Mountains geology, California and Oregon, listing authors from Aalto to Zucca for the years...Peak.............................. 119 ---Wooley Creek..............................119 ---English Peak...features.......................... 120 OPHIOLITES Josephine ................................. 121 ---North...and general........................ 148 ---County and district reports ............... 148 MINERAL DEPOSITS...1988, Sedimentology of the Montgomery Creek Formation, Shasta County, California: California Geology, v
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Bibliography of Klamath Mountains Geology, California and Oregon, listing Authors from Aalto to Zucca for the Years...---Wooley Creek ---English Peak ---Other plutons ---General features OPHIOLITES ---Josephine ---North...---Platinum ---Silver ---Other, and general ---County and district reports MINERAL DEPOSITSโ€”NONMETALLIC ---Asbestos...1988, Sedimentology of the Montgomery Creek Formation, Shasta County, California: California Geology, v...1988, Reconnaissance geologic map of the Pilot Creek quadrangle, Humboldt and Trinity Counties, California:
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....................................... 102 District of Columbia .................................................................................. Oregon. ................................................about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five times the combined production and...than 86,000,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement and the imports of foreign cement are so...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
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1957 THE 0 RE . - BIN 67 Portland, Oregon STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES...Head Office: 1069 State Office Bldg., Portland 1, Oregon Telephone: CApitol 6-2161, Ext. 488 Field Offices...Employment in mineral industries subject to the Oregon Unemployment Compensation Law now totals 8,201...State. The many natural advantages avai lable in Oregon make it attractive to industries of this type and...are produced in Oregon, and 112 mills and smelters are in operation currently. Gold mining, long a major
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about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five tunes the combined production and...than 80,000,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement and the imports of foreign cement are so...it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish
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Empire. No attempt has been made to give details of mining or metallurgical processes. HARCOURT, Chairman...with olivine, chromite, the dunites consist principally of and magnetite some chromite. These rocks are...serpentine, platinum is usually disseminated through the rock in fine particles. It seldom occurs in a lode formation...rocks, the associated minerals are usually In chromite, magnetite, ilmenite, iridium and osmiridium....in January 1916 before the American Institute of Mining Engineers. SCRAP PLATINUM A considerable amount
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ORECiON CiEOLOCiY published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries VOLUME 44, NUMBER...NUMBER 4 !' APRIL 1982 OREGON GEOLOGY OIL AND GAS NEWS (ISSN 0164-3304) Mist Gas Field: VOLUME 44... APRIL 1982 Published monthly by the State of Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (Volumes...company recently finished the redrill of Columbia County 41-2 in sec. 2, T. 6 N., R. 5 W. The redrill, which...moved the Taylor Drilling Company rig to Columbia County 12-9, a well drilled in 1980, and redrilled it
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CHROMITE IN THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA AND OREGON.1 By J. S. DlLLER. THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS. ...southwestern Oregon extend north and south for 260 miles 170 miles in California and 90 miles in Oregon. Their...curved border, overlapped by the Coast Range of Oregon, trends toward the Blue Mountains; the southeastern...general outlines in the Grants Pass quadrangle of Oregon have yet been surveyed. Much of the middle portion...than those of the Coast Ranges of California and Oregon and are closely related in materials and structure
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ORE.- BIN Vol.20, No.4 April 1958 33 Portland, Oregon STATE OF OREGO N DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL...Head Office: 1069 State Office Bldg., Portland 1, Oregon Telephone: CApital 6-2161, Ext. 488 Field Offices...************ LIMESTONE OCCURRENCES IN WESTERN OREGON The Department has received numerous requests in...areas in which I imestone has been found in western Oregon. Accompanying the maps are brief remarks on the...commodi ty in Oregon. A similar report on limestone in northeastern and central Oregon has been prepared
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OREGON GEOLOGY published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries VOLUME 47. NUMBER...NUMBER 9 SEPTEMBER 19B5 OREGON GEOLOGY (ISSN 0164-3304) VOLUME 47, NUMBER 9 SEPTEMBER 1985 Published...Published monthly by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (Volumes 1 through 40 were entitled...Supervisor Second class postage paid at Portland, Oregon. Subscription rates: I year, $6.00; 3 years, $15...subscription orders, renewals, and changes of address to Oregon Geology, 910 State Office Building, Portland, OR
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ORE. -BIN Vol. 15. No. 3 lI.aroh 1953 Portland, Oregon STATE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES...Head Offioe: 1069 State Office Bldg., Portland 1, Oregon Telephone: Columbia 2161, Ext. 488 **********...MINES IN OREGON 1953 Many requests are received annually for names of aotive Oregon mining properties...gravel quarries, or rock crushers. Ed. Building Stone Northwest Granite Co. Haines, Oregon Chrome Concentrating...Concentrating Plants Baker County Sec. 27 T. 7 S., R. 39 E. Paoific Cut Stone Co. ( Tuff) C/o Mutual Materials
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STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES 329 SW. Oak Street Portland, Oregon Bulletin...No. 14-A Oregon Metal Mines Handbook By the Staff Bulletin No. No. 14-A Northeastern Oregon-East Half...Northeastern Oregon-West Half No. 14-C Southwestern Oregon No. 14-D Northwestern Oregon No. 14-E Central...Central and Southeastern Oregon ----๏ฟฝ- 1939 STATE GOVERNING BOARD W. H. STRAYER, CHAIRMAN BAKER ...catalog of Oregon mines ever published was for many years. Ever-increasing demand-both from Oregon and from
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assembled stone in which the top and bottom are rock crystal cemented with colored canada balsam. The...Diamonds are found inkimberlite, a rare volcanic rock. Physical properties: PRECIOUS GEMS DIAMOND c...Ark. Kimberlite is a dark, greenish-black igneous rock of the peridotite family. It is composed Of partly...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian
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vols. 3, 4, 5, nos. 1, 2. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 145-156; Transactions...nos. 1-9. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 85-88; Preliminary report... 1-6, vol. 34, nos. 1-9. Ottawa, Out. Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 81-104; Transactions...Transactions, vols. 21, 22. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vols. 40, 41. Toronto and Montreal, Canada...Boletin de Miuas, nos. 5, 6. Habana, Cuba. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 8, no.
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stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to and in is, author of this...this the book Jay Ellis Ransom, popular Rock-huntefs Range Guide, tells everything you need to know...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...as well as a dis- cussion of the basic kinds of rock: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Once the
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REsOURCES OF OREGON I SIXTH SUPPLEMENT I January l, 1971 to Dec ember 31, 1975 STATE OF OREGON DEPAIItTME:NT...GEOLOGY AND MINI!:RAL 1978 INDUSTRIES STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES 1069...1069 State Office Building Portland, Oregon 97201 BULLETIN 97 BIBLIOGRAPHY of the GEOLOGY and MINERAL...MINERAL RESOURCES S i xt h of OREGON Supplement January 1, 1971 to December 31, 1975 Compiled by...Va. 22041 with the assistance of Ainslie Bricker Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Edited
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Metamorphic rocks characterized by lenses of iron-rich rock.................................. Bas ic gneiss...Hellroaring Plateau........................... Line Creek Plateau............................ Silver Run Plateau...Plateau................................... Line Creek Plateau.................................... Value...Value of the magnetometer in prospecting for chromite. Reserves...........................................Hellroaring Plateau................ Deposits on Line Creek Plateau........................ Deposits on Silver
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Logan, District Mining Engineer San Francisco - Sacramento C. McK. Laizure, District Mining Engineer...Burling Tucker, District Mining Engineer Los Angeles Reid J. Sampson, Assistant District Engineer Los...Los Angeles Chas. V. Averill, District Mining Engineer Redding Frank Sanborn, Mineral Technologist ...Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) San Francisco TABLE OF CONTENTS REPORTS OF DISTRICT MINING ENGINEERS...GIST CALIFORNIA โ€” O * LEGEND* Mining Division Bou/icfar/es. Mining Division Off/ces. MEXICO PREFACE
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YEAR 1687"โ€”DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...thickness; mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted...south prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles
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OREGON GEOLOGY published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries SEPTEMBER 1992 VOLUME... IN THIS ISSUE: A History of Geologic Study in Oregon , The Mount Angel Fault: Seismic-Reflection Data...Earthquakes and Geothermal Exploration in Oregon , 1991 ,- OREGON-GE-OLOGY (ISSN 0164-3304) VOLUME 54,...March, May. July. September, and November by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. (Volumes...Governing Board Ronald K. Culbertson. Chair. Myrtle Creek John W. Stephens . . . . . . . Portland Jacqueline
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Vol. 32, No. I January 1970 STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENI" OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAl INDUSTRIES The Ore...Ore Bin PubUshed Monthly By STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES Head Office: 1069...1069 State Office Bldg., Portland, Oregon'" 97201 Telephone: 226 ... 2161, Ext. 488 FIELD OFFICES 2033...cents each. Second c1QSS postage paid at Portland, Oregon GOVERNING BOARD Fayette I. Bristol , Rogue River...information contained heroin. Credlt given tn. State of Oregon Department of Geology and MJneral Inulrles for
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org/details/reportofstatemin15cali CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO ^LETCHER...Statement xxiii Participation of the California State Mining Bureau in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition... Alpine County. Introduction Table of Mineral Production General Features 5 6 6 , Mining Districts...Districts The Mogul and Monitor Districts Rock Formations of the Districts Silicification of the Districts ...Hercules Company 14 23 Silver Mountain District Silver King District Mineral Water Grover's Hot Springs
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Smith College, Northampton, Mass. Introduction Chromite, first mined in Norway in 1820, came into prominence...insignificant looking, granular to compact black mineral, chromite (Mg,Fe) C r 2 0 4 , which is the only ore mineral...Minerals Year Book, 1959, (p. 321). "Chromium (in chromite ores and concentrates) consumed by the metallurgical...tanning, bleaching and oxidizing agents. Mineralogy Chromite belongs to the spinel group of minerals which...e 2 0 4 ) , Magnetite ( F e F e 2 0 4 ) , and Chromite ( F e C r 2 0 4 ) . Berry and Mason's Mineralogy
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