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Daddy Lode

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Arsenic, Barium-Barite
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032735
MRDS ID M014442
Record type Site
Current site name Daddy Lode
Alternate or previous names Blue Bell
Related records 10177392

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.41602, 44.94264 (WGS84)
Relative position 10 MILES N. OF KEATING, ON BRANCH OF GOOSE CREEK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Balm Creek Reservoir(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)

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 007S 043E 23 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • 10 UNPATENTED LODE CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Primary
Arsenic Critical Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.41602, 44.94264
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form DISSEMINATED AND PATCHES OF SOLID SULFIDES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eagle Creek

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • NO RECORD.

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY 210-FOOT SHAFT AND 2,000 FEET DRIFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - A, P. 45

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 61 , P. 98 .

  • Deposit

    FILE REPORTS ODGM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1978 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1979 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.

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