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Bear Creek Uranium

Occurrence in Crook county in Oregon, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036289
MRDS ID M025048
Record type Site
Current site name Bear Creek Uranium
Related records 10274192

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.74778, 44.00539 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Alkali Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Prineville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bend(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Crooked(hydrologic unit)

Deschutes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(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 Crook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 018S 016E 13 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF BEAR CREEK BUTTE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) Landslide and debris-flow deposits
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • VISIBLE YELLOW-GREEN URANIUM MINERALS OCCUR IN THE SILICIFIED ZONE; DARKER GREEN URANIUM MINERALS OCCUR DISSEMINATED IN AN ADJACENT CLAYEY GOUGE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1955

Mining district

District name Bear Creek

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHAFER, M. AND SCHLICKER, H.G., 1955, URANIUM OCCURRENCE, BEAR CREEK AREA; ODGMI UNPUBLISHED FILE REPORT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DUPLICATE M029006 HAS BEEN DELETED.

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

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