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Chloride

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Arsenic
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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 10033413
MRDS ID M015755
Record type Site
Current site name Chloride
Related records 10274046

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.60356, 44.72374 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Vinegar Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Fork John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Umatilla 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 010S 034E 03 SE Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.60356, 44.72374
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones In Granodiorite

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 Umatilla National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • REPORTED ASSAYS RANGE FROM $5 TO $250 OF WHICH MORE THAN HALF IS IN GOLD (1914)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PARKS, H.M. AND SWARTLEY, A.M., 1916, MINERAL RESOURCES OF OREGON; OREGON BUREAU OF MINES VOL. 2, P. 5

  • Production

    PARKS AND SWARTLEY (1914)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-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

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