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Oregon

Coos County

Old Randolph : (Gold & Platinum)

Economic Geology of the Platinum Metals, Geological Survey Professional Paper 630, GPO, 1969, p100 : The beach sands contain placer gold and platinum. The Oregon beach deposits were discovered in 1852, and those of a higher grade were soon exhausted, yet many of them were worked intermittently for years afterward.

See Pacific Beaches for further details.