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Homestake

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Zinc, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  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 10033065
MRDS ID M014965
Record type Site
Current site name Homestake
Alternate or previous names Lone Star, Mockingbird, Plowman, Bull of Woods, Ethel
Related records 10128230

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.78439, 44.71291 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Susanville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Fork John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Malheur 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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 010S 033E 07 E Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • ON THE NORTH SIDE OF ELK CREEK OPPOSITE THE BADGER.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Ankerite Gangue
Jarosite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS ABOUT 0.3 OZ GOLD AND ONE OZ. SILVER

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) Clastic rocks and andesite flows
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 40 E
    Dip 60 E

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SEVERAL MINERALIZED FRACTURE ZONES WHICH LOCALLY CONTAIN QUARTZ AND ORE MINERALS, COUNTRY ROCK IS CUT BY LARGE APLITE DIKE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Susanville

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Malheur Natioal Forest

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL OUTPUT REPORTED IN 1905.

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY ABOUT 500 FEET OF UNDERGROUND WORKINGS. SMALL OUTPUT REPORTED IN 1905.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON, ODGMI BULL 61 , P. 122 .

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941 , ODGMI, BULL. 14 - B, P. 143

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1980 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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