Table Top Prospect

Occurrence in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Nickel, Asbestos
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Alteration
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033303
MRDS ID M015611
Record type Site
Current site name Table Top Prospect
Alternate or previous names Nickel Dome
Related records 10152906

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.43295, 44.39819 (WGS84)
Relative position NEAR HEAD OF BIRCH CREEK; 14 MI FROM BIRCH CREEK MEADOWS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rye Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Brogan(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Burnt(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(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 Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 013S 043E 34 NW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • NW 1/4 SEC 34

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Primary
Asbestos Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Silica Leaching, Limonite From Iron-Bearing Carbonates

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES INDICATE LOW NICKEL VALUES OF SIX SAMPLES, HIGHEST VALUE IS 0.485 % NI
Result THE OTHERS RANGE FROM 0.10 TO 0.16 % NI.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 18
USGS model code 8d
Deposit model name Serpentine-hosted asbestos

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.43295, 44.39819

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS OCCUR IN A WINDOW OF PRE-JURASSIC SERPENTINITE AND BURNT RIVER SCHIST WHICH HAS BEEN FAULTED INTO JURASSIC WACKE. THESE ARE UNCONFORMABLY OVERLAIN BY TERTIARY TUFFACEOUS SEDIMENTS AND THIN TERTIARY BASALT FLOWS. THE GREEN MICAS OCCUR IN A SILICA-LIMONITE BOXWORK IN ALTERED SERPENTINITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF SEVERAL SMALL HAND-DUG PITS.

Comments on development

  • CLAIMS POSTED BY R. A. GRIFFITH AND LESTER HICE IN SEPT. 1944 BUT WERE APPARENTLY NEVER RECORDED. SUBSEQUENT CLAIMS HAVE BEEN FILED ON THE OCCURRENCES FROM TIME TO TIME.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RAMP, LEN, 1978 , INVESTIGATIONS OF NICKEL IN OREGON: ODGMI MISC. PAPER NO. 20 , P. 61 - 62

  • Deposit

    1948 RECON ODGMI FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    1969 COMPIL ODGMI REFERENCE 1

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit REFERENCE NUMBER (M014475) HAS BEEN MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1980 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-MAY-1995 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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