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Mountain Belle

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033421
MRDS ID M015764
Record type Site
Current site name Mountain Belle
Related records 10200870

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.22661, 44.81513 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bourne(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(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)

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 Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 009S 037E 6 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • ON THE SOUTHERN EXTENSION OF THE NORTH POLE-COLUMBIA LODE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.22661, 44.81513
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description East-West Trending Thrust Faults

Ore body information

  • Strike N60E
    Dip NW
    Width 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciated Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cracker Creek

Land status

Ownership category Private
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Amer Higley
    Home office Baker, Or.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W. 1901, GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, OREGON, USGS ANN. REPT. NO.2, P.666

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND OTHERS, 1981, MAP OF THE GEOLOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE BOURNE QUADRANGLE, BAKER AND GRANT COUNTIES, OREGON; ODGMI MAP GMS-19

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VALUES ARE REPORTEDLY LOW. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

Beyond USGS

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