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Aim Id | Waypoint Id | # Pictures | Date | Site Name | General Area | Narrative |
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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. |
End of report. 93 records listed. Retrieved 7/3/2024 1:50:25 AM.
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