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North Powder Mine

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Antimony, Arsenic, Zinc
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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 10033344
MRDS ID M015662
Record type Site
Current site name North Powder Mine
Related records 10298780

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.87937, 45.02596 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

North Powder(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Enterprise(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Grangeville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Powder(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 006S 039E 24 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone
    Rock unit name Clover Creek Greenstone
    Rock description Clover Creek Greenstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.87937, 45.02596
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Between Albite Granite And Greenstone

Comments on the geologic information

  • ACTIVE HOT SPRONGS OCCUR IN THE FLAT SEVERAL HUNDRED FT TO THE WEST OF THE DEPOSIT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Baker

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WAGNER, N.S., 1943, THE NORTH POWDER MINE, BAKER DISTRICT: ODGMI UNPUBLISHED REPORT

  • Deposit

    1943 RECON ODGMI, UNPUB. REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1979 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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