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Aim Id | Waypoint Id | # Pictures | Date | Site Name | General Area | Narrative |
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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. |
BE000197 | AR76 | 0 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | Top of ridge. |
BE000197 | AR77 | 0 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | Contact with limestone (uphill to north) and quartzite (downhill to south). Also breccia. |
BE000197 | AR78 | 0 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | 2nd waypoint. Contact with limestone (uphill to north) and quartzite (downhill to south). Also breccia. |
BE000197 | AR79 | 0 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | Alluvial fan with small creek on it (lower end). Placer rocks? Could be natural. Marroon siltite down from the USFS gate. One small pile of spoils just down from gate. |
BE000197 | AR80 | 0 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | Springs emerge. |
BE000197 | AR81 | 3 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | Drainage comes in from the west. Placer spoils on main creek. Mixed cobble/alluvium quartzite and volcanics? Piles 5 ft x 10 ft x 4 to 5 ft high. |
BE000197 | AR82 | 0 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | Another placer spoil pile. Goes downstream ~about 100 ft. Another small spot and then no placer until curve in road. |
BE000197 | AR83 | 0 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | Past curve in road. Claim posts here but placer has died out again. Test pits on both sides of road. |
BE000197 | AR84 | 0 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | By small side drainage, and some across the road. |
BE000197 | AR85 | 0 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | Breached dam. Old rusty stove. |
BE000197 | AR86 | 4 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | Placer. Longest stretch of placer - spoils piles parallel creek. Placer ends where mine is. |
BE000197 | AR87 | 0 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | Mine. |
BE000197 | AR88 | 0 | 7/1/2011 | FRENCH GULCH | ARGENTA | One pile, and then ~250 ft to 400 ft of placer. |
MA003435 | BG001 | 1 | 8/18/2010 | BARTON GULCH WEST PLACERS | BARTON GULCH | Lower end of placer with highwall and slickensides. |
BE000209 | BAN_41 | 5 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | COLD SPRING CREEK | By powerline and Spring Creek, PVC pipes with holes in covers. |
BE000209 | BAN_42 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | COLD SPRING CREEK | Adit with gated culvert. |
BE000209 | BAN_43 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | COLD SPRING CREEK | Junction in road. |
BE000209 | BAN_44 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | COLD SPRING CREEK | Another junction. |
BE000209 | BAN_45 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | COLD SPRING CREEK | Took right at this junction. |
BE000209 | BAN_46 | 1 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | Bannack | On "Grasshopper Creek Road", took photo of alluvium and volcanics. BLM north of road. |
BE000209 | BAN_47 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | GRASSHOPPER CREEK | Turn to east. |
BE000209 | BAN_48 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | GRASSHOPPER CREEK | Fence line. |
BE000209 | BAN_41 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | Cold Spring Creek | By powerline and Spring Creek, PVC pipes with holes in covers. |
BE000078 | BAN_50 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | |||
BE000078 | BAN_51 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | |||
BE000078 | BAN_52 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | |||
BE000078 | BAN_53 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | |||
BE000078 | BAN_49 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | GRASSHOPPER CREEK | Gate private/BLM |
BE000078 | BAN_50 | 4 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | GRASSHOPPER CREEK | Private new log cabin. |
BE000078 | BAN_51 | 15 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | GRASSHOPPER CREEK | Northmost edge. |
BE000078 | BAN_52 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | GRASSHOPPER CREEK | Trench crosses road to north. Light tan silt. |
BE000078 | BAN_53 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | GRASSHOPPER CREEK | 6 ft by 6 t by 15 ft deep shaft/pit on south side of road. |
BE000078 | BAN_54 | 0 | 8/25/2011 | Grasshopper Placer | GRASSHOPPER CREEK | West end of cuts. Dry arroyo adjacent to road. Are 6 ft to 10 ft vertical sides. Rock outcrop on road. |
End of report. 61 records listed. Retrieved 4/25/2024 5:30:21 AM.
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