Big Creek-Yaquina Bay-Newport Placer

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Oregon, United States with commodities Iron, Titanium, Metal, Chromium

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10068336
MRDS ID	W001341
Record type	Site
Current site name	Big Creek-Yaquina Bay-Newport Placer
Related records	10298355

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-124.05815, 44.65813 (WGS84)
Elevation	1
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Geographic areas

Country	State	County
United States	Oregon	Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian	Township	Range	Section	Fraction	State
	010S	011W	32	SW OF NE	Oregon

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Iron	Primary
Titanium, Metal	Primary
Chromium	Primary

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Chromite	Ore
Ilmenite	Ore

Host and associated rocks

Host or associated Host

Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel

Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-124.05815, 44.65813	ListMap

Comments on the geologic information

HR.AGE.MV: GREENSTONE

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Occurrence
Commodity type	Metallic
Significant	No

Comments on the production information

TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TONS ILMENITE-CHROMITE CONCENTRATE.

Comments on the reserve resource information

.3 MM GRAIN SIZE

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	W001341
U.S. Bureau of Mines	Minerals Availability System	MAS	0410410005

Bibliographic references

Deposit

TWENHOFEL 1946 ORE. DEP. GEOL. MIN. IND. BULL 30

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	01-JAN-1973	Force, Eric R.	U.S. Geological Survey
Updater	01-AUG-1993	Gray, Jerry J.	Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries