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Agate from
Bear Creek, Crook County, Oregon, USA


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Agate
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Agate data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bear Creek, Crook County, Oregon, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:146142
Long-form Identifier:1:3:146142:8
GUID (UUID V4):8538604c-b0ab-4643-aed3-b7e3cef3a445
Nearest other occurrences of Agate
23.0km (14.3 miles) ⓘPost, Crook County, Oregon, USA
27.5km (17.1 miles) ⓘMaury Mountains, Crook County, Oregon, USA
73.1km (45.4 miles) ⓘAshwood, Jefferson County, Oregon, USA
75.1km (46.6 miles) ⓘRichardson Ranch, Madras, Jefferson County, Oregon, USA
76.1km (47.3 miles) ⓘPriday Polka Dot Beds, Jefferson County, Oregon, USA
92.8km (57.7 miles) ⓘAntelope, Wasco County, Oregon, USA
References
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Book (edition)
areas. Price: $2.00. THE AGATE BOOK-by H. C. Dake. A special book for the agate hunter, collector and cutter...subvarieties of agate. The first complete book on agate with 50 photos showing various types of agate, localities...Covering both popular ond little known oreos of OREGON e WASHINGTON BRITISH COLUMBIA ‱ IDAHO BY...Burns, Oregon, seems to mirror the beautiful Oregon coast with clouds and breaking surf. Oregon thundereggs...Diggings How tci Get In OREGON WESTERN OREGON Zealite Bonanza Nehalem River Clear Creek Western Rivers North
Book (volume)
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, — ; Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming ~ AllanW...Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming VOLUME...Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming by Allan...Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oregon South Dakota Washington vi Contents Wyoming...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible
Journal (issue)
OREGON GEOLOGY published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries VOLUME 48, NUMBER...nlUAL SUMMARY: MIIERAL IIDUSTRY II DREGDI 1985 OREGON GEOLOGY (ISSN 0164-3304) VOLUME 48, NUMBER 4 ... APRIL 1986 Published monthly by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (Volumes I...Supervisor Second class postage paid at Portland, Oregon. Subscription rates: 1 year $6; 3 years, $15. Single...subscription orders, renewals, and changes of address to Oregon Geology, 910 State Office Building, Portland, OR
Journal (issue)
No. January 1961 THE ORE.-BIN STATE OF OREGON Portland, Oregon DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES...Head Office: 1069 State Office Bldg., Portland 1, Oregon Telephone: CApitol 6-2161, Ext. 488 State Governing... Steere * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * OREGON MINERAL PRODUCTION IN 1960 By Ralph S. Mason* Oregon's...gas pipeline from Camas, Washington, to Eugene, Oregon, provided the area with an important raw material...by-product tests on its Eden Ridge coal in Coos County. Pacific has been exploring the feasibility of
Report (issue)
and Sand Hollow Wilderness Study Areas, Crook County, Oregon U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1744-A...and Sand Hollow Wilderness Study Areas, Crook County, Oregon By JAY A. ACH, JAMES T. BATESON, RICHARD...WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: CENTRAL AND FAR WESTERN OREGON DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL...and Sand Hollow Wilderness Study Areas, Crook County, Oregon. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1744-A)...mineral resources Oregon South Fork Wilderness. 2. Mines and mineral resources Oregon Sand Hollow Wilderness
Journal (issue)
OREGON GEOLOGY published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries VOLUME 50, NUMBER...Jurassic ammonite biochronology, Snowshoe Formation OREGON GEOLOGY (ISSN 0164-3304) VOLUME 50, NUMBER 11112...11112 NOV.lDEC. 1988 Published bimonthly by the Oregon Department of Geology and Minerallndustric:s (Volumes............ . . Baker Ronald K. Culbertson Mynle Creek State Geologist ...... . . ... Donald A. Hull Deputy...SupcI"Yisor Second class postage paid al Portland, Oregon. Subscription rates: ) year $6; 3 years, $15. Single
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Canada. 276 KENTUCKY FOSSILS-New find in Bath County. Brachiopods, platystrophias, Ordovician. Five...Specimen in matrix, 2V2", $1.25 postpaid. Anderson County Corals, fine, reddish, 2 " x 3 " , $1. Satisfaction...1, Barstow, Calif. IDAHO GARNETS—Famous Emerald Creek garnets, 15 for $1.00 or $5.00 lb. Tumbled garnets...Street, Melbourne, Australia. MINERALS FAMED BEAR CREEK PLUME-Resembling cock plumes, $3.00 a pound in...freight. Samples 50c" each. Steevens, Bear Creek, Prineville, Oregon. pealots. You Max OUTSTANDING COLLECTION
Journal (issue)
OREGON GEOLOGY published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries VOLUME 52, NUMBER...NUMBER 6 NOVEMBER 1990 OREGON GEOLOGY OIL AND GAS NEWS (ISSN 0164-3304) VOLUME 52, NUMBER 6 NOVEMBER...March. May, July, September, and November by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. (Volumes...Sidney R. Johnson, Chair . . Baker City .' Myrtle Creek Ronald K. Culbertson . . . . Portland John W. Stephens...Supervisor. Second class postage paid at Portland, Oregon. Subscription rates: 1 year, $6; 3 years, $15.
Journal (issue)
METALLU RG ICAL INDUSTRY IN 1968 By Rolph S. Mason· Oregon mineral production, pacing the state's growing...Minerals The demand for sand, grovel, and stone in Oregon in 1968 amounted to 40 million tons . If all of...being built currently. One building, the State of Oregon parking facility in downtown Portland, will use...the Ready-Mix Truck." ‱ Mining Engineer, State of Oregon Dept. Geo logy & Mineral Indu stries . Most cerlai...aggregate-producing industry Clcry$ 295 I I 338 of Oregon stood out a lmost 750 750 Gem $Iones a lone in
Report (volume)
Oberlb Oklahoma........Prof. D. W. Ohern, Norman. Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Journal (issue)
OREGON GEOLOGY published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries VOLUME 51, NUMBER...NUMBER 6 NOVEMBER 1989 OIL AND GAS NEWS OREGON GEOLOGY Drilling activity at Mist (ISSN 0164-3304) VOLUME...March, May. July. September. and November by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. (Volumes...Chair . . . . Baker Rooald K. Culbertson Myrtle Creek Donald A. Haagensen . . . . Portland State Geologist...SupeIVisor. Second class postage paid at Portland, Oregon. Subscription rates: I year, $6; 3 years, $15.
Report (volume)
.............................................. Oregon. ................................................of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all...2, 1914. Mitchell, John Graham, Minerals of Oregon: Oregon Univ. Bull., new ser., vol. 13, No. 3, 1915...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Journal (issue)
PORTLAND, pt v' iv OREGON MAY - 1949 A I KB f CONTENTS Oregon Gem Locality — Lawson . Page...Page 227 Australia Opal — Davies . . . . Oregon Fossil Fern — Arnold . . Page 230 Page 233 Mineral...252 Washington Locality — Case . . Page 254 Oregon Gem Cutter — Borden . Page 267 Gem Hunters —...this work has been recognized as the bible for the agate and quartz cutter and collector. Describes some...Mineralogist Hews of the Societies VISIT GREEN’S AGATE SHOP THE HOME LAPIDARY shop of W. Sab­ in and Raymond
Book (volume)
of the Pine Ridge Escarpment and along Whiteclay Creek near the Sioux Indian community of the same name...and breaks in the hills along the Minnechaduza Creek and the Niobrara, as well as all tributary canyons...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...especially to the W of townï‚Ÿagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza
Report (issue)
Water Quality of Bear Creek Basin, Jackson County, Oregon By Loren A. Wittenberg and Stuart W. McKenzie...the Rogue Valley Council of Governments and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality 1980 UNITED...U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY P. 0. Box 3202 Portland, Oregon 97208 Contents Page Conversion factors -----...--------------------Identified water uses in Bear Creek basin---------------------------Water-quality...-------------------Water-quality problems in Bear Creek basin--------------------------Irrigation-water
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl ^"^ Agate ** Jade Amethyst nq -* % Gem Hunter's...color, as in emeralds; their pattern, as in moss agate; or their play of eral color, as in opals. Fashion... such as agate and jasper, are described as cryptocrystal- line. For example, an agate nodule may...cat's- more but inexhaustibly various patterns of agate and jasper. So typical are their patterns that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Collecting Sites for Agate in Washington State R O B E R T D. P A T T I E 4 3 1 6 N E 10th S t r e e...S T A T E O F W A S H I N G T O N has many good agate localities offering a wide variety of material....most cases, the sites identified here by name and county occur on public lands, and currently no fees are...type of material commonly found at that site: A—agate, AW—agatized wood, J — jasper. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12...Mountain, Cowlitz ( A , J ) Johnson Creek, Thurston ( A , J ) Jordan Creek, Cowlitz ( A ) Kalama, Cowlitz
Report (issue)
1976 Water-Quality Data in Bear Creek Basin, Medford, Oregon U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Open-File Report...GOVERNMENTS 1976 WATER-QUALITY DATA IN BEAR CREEK BASIN, MEDFORD, OREGON By Stuart W. McKenzie and Loren A...U.S. Geological Survey P.O. Box 3202 Portland, Oregon 97208 CONTENTS Page Abstract Introduction Basin...diel fluctuations of water-quality parameters in Bear Creek at Kirtland Road near Central Point, August 23-24...for the diel study 5. Specific conductance of Bear Creek and tributaries between South Valley View Road
Report (volume)
is most often used in porous stones, such as the agate. The unattractive gray and pale shades may be changed...shades. The common dyeing procedure is to soak the agate in the desired chemical (nitric acid for red shades...and sulfates for blue shades). The Romans dyed agate by soaking it in honey, removing it from the liquid...the same effect is achieved by first soaking the agate in a sugar solution, and then in sulfuric acid to...eventually deposited as alluvial gravels. Opal and agate are formed from aqueous solutions. Diamonds are
Journal (issue)
■HSH r PORTLAND, OREGON April-May — 1959 CONTENTS Page 51 Clarno Fossils — Bones Midwest Localities...described in detail. Price $2.00. THE AGATE BOOK—For the agate hunter, cutter and collector. Describes...sub-varieties of agate. The first complete book on agate, with 50 photos, showing numerous types of agate, localities...Describes hundreds of collecting localities in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming. With maps...Department} 329 S.E. 32nd AVENUE PORTLAND 14, OREGON 49 The Mi n eh \ loci.st Jo Jo Jo E^cmdicrafters
Journal (issue)
1—Elko county fair and Nevada stat^ livestock show. Aug. 29-Sept. 1^-Nevada rodeo and Humboldt county fair...Aug. 30-Sept. 1—Dig-N-Dogie Days rodeo and Mohave county fair, Kingman, Arizonja. Aug. 30-Sept. 1—Sierra...Mexico. NATURE Livestock Sept. 12-14—YaVapai county fair, Prescott, Arizona. Sept. 12-18—National...New Mexico. Sept. 19-21—Fifteenth annual Navajo county fair, Holbrook, Arizona. Sept. 27-28—Sietra club...Shorty of Death V a l l e y 10 O a s i s on Bear Creek By RANDALL HENDERSON 11 A test of y o u r desert
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl *"» Agate ** Jade =p Amethyst ^ X ) y ' £f h % ^...Black Hills, the Cascades and the Grand Canyon, the Oregon and Washington beaches, the Mojave desert of California...stones will remain." On my own table is a section of agate, cut and polished, its concentric rings of rose...color, as in emeralds; their pattern, as in moss agate; or their play of color, as in opals. Fashion plays
Report (issue)
STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES 1005 State Office Building Portland, Oregon...BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF OREGON Seventh Supplement January 1, 1976, to December...Geological Institute Debbie Burnetti, Editor and Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Klaus................ ............. .. iii Map showing Oregon counties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. 25 County index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (issue)
OREGON GEOLOGY published by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries \ VOLUME 53, NUMBER...NUMBER 6 NOVEMBER 1991 OREGON GEOLOGY OIL AND GAS NEWS (ISSN 0164-3304) Drilling activity at Mist...Indu~trte~. \1a). Jul:. September. and )Jo\ember b} the Oregon Department (Volume\ 1 through ~O "ere enlltled...Publications Manager/Editor Associate Editor · Myrtle Creek · . Baker City · . . Portland . Donald A. Hull John...Supervisor. Second class postage paid at Portland, Oregon. Subscription rates: I year, $8; 3 years, $19.
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic...more miles from what is now Canada. In southern Oregon, hundreds of square miles are littered with fragments...The so-called thunder eggs dug beds in Oregon are nodules of agate, walls. TWIN CRYSTALS commonly develop
 
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