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Aim Id Waypoint Id # Pictures Date Site Name General Area Narrative
MA001810 HC007 5 8/19/2010 HELL'S CANYON PLACER HELL'S CANYON Placer on private land. General overview. Hells Canyon- private.
MA008011 CC21 0 8/5/2010 SHORT SHIFT MILL CAMP CREEK MILL
MA008054 CC26 1 8/5/2010 SHORT SHIFT PLACER ROCHESTER METAL REMNANT
MA008054 CC27 1 8/5/2010 SHORT SHIFT PLACER ROCHESTER METAL REMNANT
MA008054 CC28 0 8/5/2010 SHORT SHIFT PLACER ROCHESTER UNKNOWN.
MA008054 CC29 6 8/5/2010 SHORT SHIFT PLACER CAMP CREEK DAM & PLACER; PLACER AVERAGES 20-25 FT WIDE, ~ 4 FT DEEP. LAST 200 FT BEFORE ROAD WORKED THE MOST.
MA003570 CC22 9 8/5/2010 UPPER ROCHESTER PLACER ROCHESTER LOWER (SOUTH) END OF PLACER; ~4 FT BANKS IN SILT-SANDY ALLUVIUM. TAN. ONE 15 FT LONG RUSTY 2" PIPE. THE ONLY WATER IS PRESERVED IN MUDDY COW TRACKS OR IN INTERMITTENT, BARELY FLOWING (< 1 GPM) DRAINAGE.
MA003570 CC23 0 8/5/2010 UPPER ROCHESTER PLACER ROCHESTER SHAFT 10 FT DEEP X > 6 FT WIDE X 15 FT LONG. ARCHEAN ROCKS, AT LEAST 4 OTHER PROSPECTS IN JASPEROID-LIKE VEIN (BLACK) AND ONE IN ORANGE VEIN.
MA003570 CC24 0 8/5/2010 UPPER ROCHESTER PLACER ROCHESTER TWO SHAFTS WITH WASTE DUMPS BY ROAD.
MA003570 CC25 0 8/5/2010 UPPER ROCHESTER PLACER ROCHESTER MASSIVE QUARTZ VEIN OUTCROPPING TO THE EAST.
MA007016 CC06 0 7/28/2010 Watseca Lode ROCHESTER MUD PUDDLE NORTH OF ROCHESTER; ?Fault?
MA007016 CC07 4 7/28/2010 Watseca Lode ROCHESTER Shaft on Table Mountain 7.5-min., Is in colluvium on Picard patented claim. Other two prospects to the south are outcrops. Shaft signed and fenced; has timbers in the bottom.
MA007016 CC08 3 7/28/2010 Watseca Lode ROCHESTER Open shaft with "roof" of colluvium is north of 2-track road. Fenced. Has a post for a winch at one time, some timbers remaining. Altered metamorphics on dump plus quartz. Unique. Started in colluvium.
MA007016 CC09 4 7/29/2010 Watseca Lode ROCHESTER BIG BONANZA. Private shaft, partially open. Private with one small orange sign. ~150 ft to the east, many lobes of waste dump. ~200 ft deep shaft. Pink fine-grained intrusive.
MA007016 CC10 4 7/29/2010 Watseca Lode ROCHESTER Inclined shaft, 5th shaft, Bottom 1/2 of sec. 21, brecciated quartz vein on fairly large waste dump, some FeOx stain in pelitic rock. Open ~25 ft+.
MA007016 CC11 2 7/29/2010 Watseca Lode ROCHESTER Three prospects, 2 shallow workings in quartz vein. Bounded by black pelitic sediments, bull quartz with FeOx stain. Orange lichens.
MA007016 CC12 2 7/29/2010 Watseca Lode ROCHESTER Two prospects northeast of drainage are in sediments. Quartzite/interlayered with quartz eyes.
MA007016 CC13 0 7/29/2010 Watseca Lode ROCHESTER Prospect pit, maroon red brecciated vein.
MA007016 CC14 0 7/29/2010 Watseca Lode ROCHESTER Massive bull quartz vein > 10 ft wide.
MA007016 CC15 6 7/29/2010 Watseca Lode ROCHESTER Possible placer ~25 ft wide and another, 100 ft upstream.
MA007016 CC16 3 7/29/2010 Watseca Lode ROCHESTER WOODEN HEADFRAME NEAR 3 EXPLORATION PITS/WASTE DUMPS. Sec. 32, T.2S., R7W. (Abbie Alice, Gold Nugget, or Elgin?)
MA009228 CC06a 10 9/23/2010 TERTIARY PLACER ROCHESTER Tertiary placer in colluvium or Tertiary(?) sediments. Angular fragments in brown/tan, silt/sand. Bulldozer trenches.
MA008051 CC04 0 7/28/2010 ROCHESTER ROCHESTER GRAVEL/ROCK PIT. Ts; sediments in gravel pit, flat lying TS beds silt to cobbles. Dark gray - black local rocks, some sorted washed.
MA008051 CC05 3 7/28/2010 ROCHESTER TAILINGS ROCHESTER ROCHESTER TAILINGS. CREEK BED IS ALL DRY WITH RED/ORANGE POWDERY TAILINGS/BED. Just below Rochester.
MA003565 CC01 5 7/28/2010 MCCARTNEY CREEK PLACER MELROSE MELROSE AREA, SEC. 12 EAST OF MCCULLOGH RANCH. BLM LAND. QUARRY OR PIT, PLACER? DRY STREAMBED ~5 FT BANKS, COBBLE, PEBBLE, AND SILT LAYERS. NO PILES OR SPOILS, MAY HAVE JUST BEEN FOR ROAD METAL.
MA003565 CC02 2 7/28/2010 MCCARTNEY CREEK PLACER MELROSE TO EAST OF LAST POINT, "POSSIBLE" DISTURBED PILE BUT NOT WASHED. HAND PANNING? IN A LITTLE STEEP-SIDED CHANNEL ADJACENT TO THE ROAD. Stopped at gate to the road to the south. Is a small pit in silty gray sediment, some cobbles; nothing washed.
MA003565 CC03 1 7/28/2010 MCCARTNEY CREEK PLACER MELROSE DRY. COULD BE A COUPLE OF PLACES WITH WASHED ROCKS BUT VERY MINOR. Closed road to Nez Perce Creek.
MA003420 NMC10 5 7/27/2011 NORTH MEADOW CREEK PLACERS NORTH MEADOW CREEK Private but 1st placering. Area on topo map is smaller than the actual extent. Double 'D' homestead.
MA003420 NMC11 0 7/27/2011 NORTH MEADOW CREEK PLACERS NORTH MEADOW CREEK In road, panorama of reclamation.
MA003420 NMC12 0 7/27/2011 NORTH MEADOW CREEK PLACERS NORTH MEADOW CREEK On road by pond in reclaimed area. 2 photos here. Weeds: curley-cup gumweed, bull thistle, cheat grass, willows, planted pines. Steel fence posts mark boundaries.
MA003420 NMC13 9 7/27/2011 NORTH MEADOW CREEK PLACERS NORTH MEADOW CREEK South side of road. Rocky/pebbly, reclaimed with occasional boulder piles and swales. Outcrop of intrusive near pond.
MA003400 NMC010 16 7/27/2011 WASHINGTON BAR PLACER GROUP North Meadow Creek PRIVATE, BUT FIRST PLACER. AREA ON TOPO MAP IS SMALLER THAN THE ACTUAL MINED AREA.
MA003400 NMC011 11 7/27/2011 WASHINGTON BAR PLACER GROUP North Meadow Creek PANORAMA OF RECLAMATION. WEEDS: CURLY-CUP GUMWEED, BULL THISTLE, CHEAT GRASS, WILLOWS, AND PLANTED PINES, SAGE, GRASSES AND GALLARDIA.
MA003400 NMC012 0 7/27/2011 WASHINGTON BAR PLACER GROUP North Meadow Creek ON ROAD BY POND IN RECLAIMED AREA; STEEL FENCE POSTS MARK AREA.
MA003400 NMC013 6 7/27/2011 WASHINGTON BAR PLACER GROUP North Meadow Creek SOUTH SIDE OF ROAD. ROCKY, PEBBLEY, RECLAIMED WITH OCCASIONAL BOULDER PILES AND SWALES. OUTCROP OF INTRUSIVE NEAR SMALL POND.
MA000277 NMC014 3 7/27/2011 AURORA CREEK/AURORA GULCH North Meadow Creek AURORA CREEK. NORTH MEADOW CREEK. TWO PICTURES OF ASPEN ON SMALL TRIANGULAR PIECE OF BLM-ADMINISTERED LAND.
MA003515 RC033 0 11/4/2010 Ramshorn Creek RAMSHORN CREEK Lowermost pile is 10 ft wide by 20 ft by 4 ft high. Subround gneiss then upstream is unwashed tan, clay pile. Some hand stacked , some piles of small cobbles. Ground sluicing with well built sluiceways, then more handstacked walls. Tan, unwashed banks on
MA003515 RC034 0 11/4/2010 Ramshorn Creek RAMSHORN CREEK Placer lessens, and peters out. There is a highwall still on the right side.
MA003515 RC035 0 11/4/2010 Ramshorn Creek RAMSHORN CREEK Fencepost corner. Washed piles resume. Six to eight inch, well washed cobbles but large angular boulders (2-3 ft), then just washed dirt and alluvium. Canyon narrows.
MA003515 RC036 0 11/4/2010 Ramshorn Creek RAMSHORN CREEK BLM-private boundary. Canyon narrows, no more placer… maybe just a little disturbed ground.
MA003515 RC037 0 11/4/2010 Ramshorn Creek RAMSHORN CREEK Large pile - 6 to 8 ft high x 70 ft long x 10 ft wide; metal post (survey?) just above canyon. Private?
MA003515 RC038 8 11/4/2010 Ramshorn Creek RAMSHORN CREEK Agitator Mine - wooden ditch. 1 adit, 2 others started. Wooden loadout with concrete base.
MA003515 RC039 1 11/4/2010 Ramshorn Creek RAMSHORN CREEK Placer
MA003515 RC040 1 11/4/2010 Ramshorn Creek RAMSHORN CREEK Minor, small piles. Some hand-stacked. Poor small road crosses creek, here and follows the other side.
MA003515 RC041 0 11/4/2010 Ramshorn Creek RAMSHORN CREEK One placer pile, washed cobbles.
MA003515 RC042 2 11/4/2010 Ramshorn Creek RAMSHORN CREEK Alluvial fan, with some washing/placering.
MA000283 CA043 2 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK No placer ~50 ft below the end of this section of placer (but passed some coming up). Recent test pit; no placer. Downstream the end of placer is in subrounded/flat, handstacked walls; 6 in. to 1 ft boulders. ~10 ft of light tan silty material.Only one pi
MA000283 CA044 2 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Flat spot in creek, 3 ft to 5 ft wide, ~300 gpm. Placer starts again in another 50 ft. Have washed side drainages for ~`50 ft width. Rocks mostly gneiss with some white bull quartz boulders.
MA000283 CA045 0 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Light tan sediments.
MA000283 CA046 0 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Wooden flume.
MA000283 CA047 0 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Washed sediments up side drainage. No piles of spoils. 4 in. by 4 in. post. Outcrop, upstream of this, steep side drainages are washed: 15 ft deep, 50 ft long, 15 ft wide.
MA000283 CA048 0 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Placer starts again, up from outcrops on the other side the creek.
MA000283 CA049 0 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Placer ended ~500 ft downstream; now starts again on a smaller scale. Claim post. Some test pits on sides of main drainage. Cobbles in pits. Placer <50 ft wide in main drainage, is intermittent.
MA000283 CA050 0 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Placer. Still placer with side (north) washed cobble piles/spoils.
MA000283 CA051 0 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Location post. Thomas Dean (1999) Lucky Boy. By where the road comes down. Placer continues on the bench on the other side of the creek with ditch paralleling creek and test pits higher up.
MA000283 CA052 0 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Mafic (amphibolite?), FeOx. Just upstream of cut/placer on opposite bank.
MA000283 CA053 0 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Placer starts again; Only on north side of creek. Just below where the better road joins. Placer increases upstream from here.
MA000283 CA054 3 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK White/orange altered zone; is "washed" in the channel up to this outcrop. This is just below where drainage is placered; comes in from the north/spring area. Boards, scrap iron, flume(?). Creek has steep banks here; are intermittent piles of washed cobble
MA000283 CA055 2 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Placer pile on far side of creek (south). Still placering but first pile in long time. On "better" road. Trees are more mature here. Call this the end of the placer. There may be more isolated piles upstream but nothing major. Probably just trenches for e
MA000283 CA056 3 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Developed spring. Two cups in tree, black poly pipe and white PVC across road. Photos 131_a, 131_b, 131_c.
MA000283 CA057 2 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Shack mine office. Lockers, stove, wash tubs, chairs, hose, jars, etc. Wooden flume in poor condition. Rocks are intrusive here. Photos 132_a and 132_b
MA000283 CA058 0 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Junction of roads. Spiderwebs of placer. One or two on north side of junction.
MA000283 CA059 2 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Claim corner, No. 2, NW ? 8' arrow points north. Photos 134_a and 134_b
MA000283 CA060 0 11/5/2010 California Creek CALIFORNIA CREEK Parking area.
MA000451 BR001 1 7/20/2011 BROWNS GULCH Browns Gulch BLM MARKER ~2.8 MILES FROM MAIN ROAD, LOOKING UPSTREAM ALONG BLM LAND. ALDERS >90 DEAD, GRASSES, WILD ROSES, CHEATGRASS, CHOKECHERRIES, YELLOW COMPOSITES, GOOSEBERRIES. STREAM 1 FT TO 1.5 FT WIDE. SLIGHTLY SINUOUS, LIGHT ORANGE SUBSTRATE.
MA000451 BR002 4 7/20/2011 BROWNS GULCH Browns Gulch BY CREEK, MONKEY FLOWERS, SEDGES, FORBS, CEDARS, WILLOWS, ASPEN (ALIVE AND DEAD), NETTLES AND ROSES. QUARTZ AND QUARTZITE PEBBLES, <1/2 TO 2 INCHES, FLAT BOTTOM, ~30 INCHES WIDE WITH STEEP BANKS.
MA000451 BR003 0 7/20/2011 BROWNS GULCH Browns Gulch AT CATTLE GUARD, 4 CHUTE LOAD-OUT ON OTHER SIDE OF CREEK. PRIVATE.
MA000451 BR004 0 7/20/2011 BROWNS GULCH Browns Gulch LEAVING PUBLIC LAND
MA000451 BR005 4 7/20/2011 BROWNS GULCH Browns Gulch MINE, 600 FT LEVEL OF THE EASTON PACIFIC.
MA000451 BR006 6 7/20/2011 BROWNS GULCH Browns Gulch AT JUNCTION OF THE ROAD; ADIT TO THE EAST; OLD MINE WITH COMPRESSOR AND BOILER (WPT3) ON RIGHT - WEST FORK * START PLACER HERE. JUNCTION OF ROADS, FROM THIS WAYPOINT 2 PHOTOS OF SPOILS PILES. AMPHIBOLITE, , QUARTZ, GNIESS AND 2 PHOTOS OF STREAM WITH BUCKE
MA000451 BR007 0 7/20/2011 BROWNS GULCH Browns Gulch WALKED DOWN CREEK, SOME WATER ON FLATS AND NOT IN STREAM. PILE ~20 FT LONG X 8 FT WIDE X 3 FT HIGH. ~14 INCH DIAMETER FIR TREE ON PILE. LICHEN COVERED QUARTZ GNEISS - ROUNDED.
MA000451 BR008 1 7/20/2011 BROWNS GULCH Browns Gulch DRY SEDIMENTS ON BANK, LOOKS WASHED IN THE DRAINAGE WITH STEEP, NEAR VERTICAL BANKS.
MA000451 BR009 1 7/20/2011 BROWNS GULCH Browns Gulch NO DESCRIPTION. LOWER AREA ON PRIVATE LAND.
MA003390 BG002 12 8/18/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH Placer on south side of road/creek. ~18" - 20" diameter fir trees grow where alluvium wasn't washed . South bank washed with 6"-8" cobbles (talus) remaining.
MA003390 BG003 0 8/18/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH Long piles of well washed spoils constraining creek (as well as road constraining creek).
MA003390 BG004 0 8/18/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH Uppermost end of placer as noted after driving up to Marietta mine and mill.
MA003390 BG005 0 8/18/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH No placer here. Where old placer road joins newer logging road.
MA003390 BG006 4 8/18/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH Dam (small, breached, earthen), on "South Fork of Barton Gulch", spotty, narrow placering until the junction . Just above junction ~100-150 ft, start of rock piles with 1' to 2' cobbles.
MA003390 BG007 1 8/18/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH Top Notch Placer, R.L. Hand, 1965.
MA003390 BG008 0 8/19/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH BLM Road 2524. 2.1 miles to orange stained breccia. ~2.5 miles to BLM boundary.
MA003390 BG009 2 8/19/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH ~100 ft long, digging in hillside. Rounded alluvial cobbles; mostly gneisses, punky gossan, and bull quartz. Some stacked walls. On north side of road. Just downhill from large outcrop of gossany breccia.
MA003390 BG010 0 8/19/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH Another possible placer. Walked, crossing creek. No placer on side creek from south. Spring area.
MA003390 BG011 0 8/19/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH Possible placer, sec. 35, old tin can.
MA003390 BG012 0 8/19/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH Elk camp, possible placer. Out of trees and the road improved.
MA003390 BG013 0 8/19/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH Breccia, orange messed up rock.
MA003390 BG014 0 8/19/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH Cabin
MA003390 BG015 0 8/19/2010 BARTON GULCH EAST PLACERS BARTON GULCH Two metal posts. Possible property boundary.
MA009231 BG016 0 8/19/2010 IDAHO CREEK PLACER (EAST) IDAHO GULCH Private road to trailers. No photo.
MA009231 BG017 2 8/19/2010 IDAHO CREEK PLACER (EAST) IDAHO GULCH Disturbed ground. Small washed piles.
MA009231 BG018 0 8/19/2010 IDAHO CREEK PLACER (EAST) IDAHO GULCH ~100 ft wide placer. Not on BLM.
MA009231 BG019 3 8/19/2010 IDAHO CREEK PLACER (EAST) IDAHO GULCH Placer highwalls and cut to south. Not on BLM
MA009231 BG020 2 8/19/2010 IDAHO CREEK PLACER (EAST) IDAHO GULCH Earthen placer dam. Not on BLM ground.
MA003435 BG001 1 8/18/2010 BARTON GULCH WEST PLACERS BARTON GULCH Lower end of placer with highwall and slickensides.

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