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Olive Butte

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033137
MRDS ID M015093
Record type Site
Current site name Olive Butte
Alternate or previous names Big Elk
Related records 10305160

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.46633, 44.74068 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Greenhorn(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 009S 035E 35 SE Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Elkhorn Ridge Argillite
    Rock description Elkhorn Ridge Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.46633, 44.74068
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: ORE IS BRECCIA OF OXIDIZED (LIMONITIC) COUNTRY ROCK AND MATRIX OF QUARTZ. NO SULFIDES. MINERALIZATION DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE EXTENSIVE. CHERT WAS NOTICED IN THE ARGILLITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Greenhorn

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT BY 2 SHAFTS OF 40 FEET AND 20 FEET, AND A TUNNEL OF UNKNOWN LENGTHS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941, ODGMI BULL. 14-B, P.85

  • Deposit

    MULLEN, E.D., 1979, GEOLOGY OF THE GREENHORN MOUNTAINS, OREGON STATE UNIV. MS. THESIS

Reporter information

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