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Malheur & Grant Counties Oregon Gold Specimens OR - Malheur County and Grant County,2012aug - Minera

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Malheur & Grant Counties Oregon Gold Specimens OR - Malheur County and Grant County,2012aug - Minera
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Two choice small gold slabs from Oregon: 6.6 grams from the Malheur County area; and 3 grams from Grant County. In the early 1850s, prospectors first discovered gold in the southern region of what was then Oregon Territory. In the 1860s, gold miners moved into eastern Oregon. Workers used gravity-fed, high-pressure water to remove entire hillsides, drastically altering landscapes and destroying fish habitat in streams and rivers. They also tunneled underground for gold, silver, and copper [Ref: www.ohs.org]. Between 1904 and 1959, Malheur County produced a total of 13,522 ounces of lode gold and 13,860 ounces of placer gold. The Mormon Basin District, which straddles the Baker-Malheur County lines is the mineralized area. Gold was first discovered in 1864 on Olive Creek in the Greenhorn Mountains of Umatilla National Forest, which extends both Grant and Baker Counties. In its heyday around 1,500 miners lived in the area and worked the many streams and creeks for placer deposits. Once these deposits were worked down, lode mining began. The lode gold in this area was primarily found in quartz veins. There were some rich discoveries along Canyon Creek, Granite, Greenhorn, North Fork, Quartzburg and Susanville. One million ounces of gold, or more, were recovered from Grant County [Ref: www.oregongold.net]. - Woodward Collection -59037