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Juniper Vein

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Arsenic, Cobalt
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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 10033087
MRDS ID M015001
Record type Site
Current site name Juniper Vein
Alternate or previous names Part of the Standard Group
Related records 10152306

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.68077, 44.54235 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dixie Meadows(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 012S 033E 12 SW OF NE Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Arsenic Critical Primary
Cobalt Critical Primary

Materials information

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

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.68077, 44.54235
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N75-80E
    Dip 80S
    Width 0.91M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE JUNIPER VEIN IS THE SOUTHERNMOST OF FOUR MAJOR VEINS PARALLELING THE STANDARD VEIN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Quartzburg District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • ABOUT 900 FT OF DRIFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, F.R., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE QUARTZBURG MINING DISTRICT, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON; OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY MS THESIS, P. 90

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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