Beach — Coos County

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: coos_or.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Area: Beach. Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. Near the town of Bandon the ocean beach black sand deposits produced rich placers and they are still being worked today at a profit. These beach sands produced platinum and gold. East of Bandon the elevated marine terraces as high as 170 feet have been worked for the ancient black sand deposits and are said to be rich. North of Bandon, all the way to Cape Arago, in the black sand deposits there is very fine placer gold and platinum. If you go north of Bandon by 10 miles in township 27S and range 14W in section 10 you will find the Seven Devils Mine. It was worked for gold and platinum in the early days and for chromium for 1942-43. In Coos Bay on the ocean beachs North and South of the Coquille River produce Platinum and Gold in the black sand deposits. Near the town of Powers in Sections 19 and 30 of township 33S and Range 20E you will find the Independence Mine which was a large lode mine.