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Orion

Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Silver, Arsenic
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032521
MRDS ID M014081
Record type Site
Current site name Orion
Related records 10176931

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.28132, 44.37846 (WGS84)
Elevation 1676

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rail Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

John Day(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Burnt(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 014S 036E 3 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Arsenic Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.28132, 44.37846
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE SHEAR ZONE BETWEEN THE MELANGE TERRANE AND THE YOUNGER JURASSIC SEDIMENTS IS CUT BY A NUMBER OF YOUNGER DIKES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Unity

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • CONSIDERABLE AMT. OF NATIVE GOLD IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN RECOVERED.

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY 280 FOOT ADIT DRIFT AND 425-FOOT CROSSCUT ADIT. CONSIDERABLE AMT. OF NATIVE GOLD IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN RECOVERED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LOWRY, W. D., 1968, GEOLOGY OF THE IRONSIDE MTN. QUADRANGLE, OREGON: ODGMI OPEN-FILE REPORT, P. 70

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 61 , P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1980 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-MAY-1995 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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