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Legal Tender Mine

Occurrence in Josephine 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10033221
MRDS ID M015314
Record type Site
Current site name Legal Tender Mine
Related records 10298903

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.6231, 42.62926 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Josephine(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Reuben(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canyonville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Rogue(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management OR)

Bureau of Land Management OR BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Josephine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 034S 008W 11 NW OF SW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • NW1/4SW1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Rogue Volcanics;Briggs Creek Amphibolite
    Rock description Rogue Volcanics;Briggs Creek Amphibolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.6231, 42.62926
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Contact

Comments on the geologic information

  • QUARTZ VEIN IN DECOMPOSED METAVOLCANICS, QUARTZITE, AND SERPENTINE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Galice

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY A 100-FOOT TUNNEL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RAMP, L. AND PETERSON, N.V., 1979, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 100, 45P

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1942, ODGMI BULL. 14-C, VOL. 2, SEC. 1, P.44

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1977 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1981 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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