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Great Northern

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036343
MRDS ID M025124
Record type Site
Current site name Great Northern
Alternate or previous names North Star
Related records 10128473

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.34199, 44.23371 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Linn(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blue River(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

McKenzie River(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salem(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Willamette(hydrologic unit)

Willamette(hydrologic accounting unit)

Willamette(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Willamette 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 Linn

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 015S 004E 28 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • W 1/2

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Little Butte Volcanics
    Rock description Little Butte Volcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.34199, 44.23371
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N23W
    Dip 70-90NE
    Thickness 0.91M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE VEIN CONSISTS OF BRECCIATED ANDESITE CONTAINING LENSES OF MASSIVE WHITE CALCITE AND A MINOR AMOUNT OF QUARTZ.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Blue River

Land status

Ownership category Private
Area name Willamette National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL HUNDRED LINEAL FEET OF TUNNELS AND RAISES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 61, P. 302

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1951, ODGMI BULL. 14-D, P. 47

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E. AND BUDDINGTON, A.F., 1938, METALLIFEROUS MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CASCADE RANGE IN OREGON; USGS BULL. 893, P. 118

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO PARALLEL VEINS ABOUT 30 FT APART

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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