Flagstaff Hill

Occurrence in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032621
MRDS ID M014236
Record type Site
Current site name Flagstaff Hill
Related records 10249694

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.73575, 44.8193 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Virtue Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Powder(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 008S 041E 31 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.73575, 44.8193

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Virtue

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF SHALLOW PROSPECT PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND MC INTYRE, J.R., 1977, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE VIRTUE FLAT QUADRANGLE; ODGMI OPEN-FILE GEOL. MAP

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RECORD NUMBER (M014237) HAS BEEN MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1980 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

Beyond USGS

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