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Lazy Jim

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Iron, Gold, Silver
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033440
MRDS ID M015787
Record type Site
Current site name Lazy Jim
Related records 10153039

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.1991, 44.68541 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sumpter(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 010S 037E 20 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 40-48% FE
Result 0.04-0.12 OZ/TON AU
Result 0.18-0.38 OZ/TON AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.1991, 44.68541
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • IRON OXIDES PSEUDOMORPH AFTER FIBROUS AMPHIBOLES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Sumpter

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • APPROXIMATELY 100 TONS OF ORE WAS USED AT THE SUMPTER SMELTER FOR FLUX (1904-1905)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WAGNER, N.S., 1943, LAZY JIM (CALCITE CRYSTALS); ODGMI UNPUBLISHED REPORT

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J.T. AND HEWITT, D.F., 1914, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE SUMPTER QUADRANGLE, ORE. BUREAU OF MINES VOL. 1, NO. 6, P. 70

  • Production

    PARDEE AND HEWITT (1914)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE IRON OXIDES OCCURRED IN THE PERIDOTITE NEAR A CONTACT WITH LIMESTONE WITHIN THE CONTACT AUREOLE OF A SMALL GRANODIORITE INTRUSION. THE LIMESTONE CONTAINS SEVERAL SEAMS OF RECRYSTALLIZED CALCITE (55.8% CAO; 0.22% MG O) ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-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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