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Farnham Property

Occurrence in Harney county in Oregon, United States with commodities Copper, Gold
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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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036279
MRDS ID M025038
Record type Site
Current site name Farnham Property
Related records 10153044

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.66295, 42.01793 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Harney(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Van Horn Basin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Alvord Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Adel(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alvord Lake(hydrologic unit)

Oregon Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon Closed Basins(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 Harney

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 041S 034E 13 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN NW 1/4 SEC 18, NE 1/4 SEC 13

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitic, Potassic

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 53
USGS model code 17
Deposit model name Porphyry Cu
Mark3 model number 4

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.66295, 42.01793
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ROWE (1971) REPORTS A GOSSAN 6000 FEET LONG AND 3000 FEET WIDE IN METAMORPHICS ALONG THE MARGIN OF A QUARTZ MONZONITE PORPHYRY

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Steens-Pueblo

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Ellis Farnham
    First year 1971

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY TWO 50 FOOT SHAFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROWE, W. A., 1971, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTH-CENTRAL PUEBLO MOUNTAINS, OREGON-NEVADA; OREGON STATE UNIV. MS. THESIS, P. 66

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 8-87, 1987, TABLE 1, NO. 26, P. 26.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-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

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