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Wallowa County Mining & Development Co.

Past Producer in Wallowa county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Silver
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032880
MRDS ID M014664
Record type Site
Current site name Wallowa County Mining & Development Co.
Alternate or previous names Williams Mine
Related records 10275198

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.06019, 45.1368 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wallowa(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lick Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Enterprise(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Grangeville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imnaha(hydrologic unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower 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 Wallowa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 005S 046E 10 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • ON LICK CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.06019, 45.1368
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Wallowa Range District

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • REPORTED THAT 1350 LBS OF SILVER ORE YIELDED $65.00 IN THE 1880'S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - A, P. 120 .

  • Deposit

    SMITH, W. D. AND OTHERS, 1941, GEOLOGY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE NORTHERN WALLOWA MOUNTAINS, OREGON, ODGMI BULL. 12, P. 52.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 120-82, 1982, TABLE 1, NO. 1, P. 8.

  • Production

    SMITH AND OTHERS, 1941

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1979 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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