Champion and Evening Star

Past Producer in Lane county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper
Sections on this page
  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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036371
MRDS ID M025160
Record type Site
Current site name Champion and Evening Star
Related records 10274531

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.63393, 43.59038 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lane(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fairview Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Oakridge(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Roseburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Coast Fork Willamette(hydrologic unit)

Willamette(hydrologic accounting unit)

Willamette(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Umpqua 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 Lane

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 023S 001E 12 S OF S Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES AVERAGED 0.55 OZ/TON AU
Result 4.21 OZ/TON AG
Result 1.72 % PB
Result 2.15 % ZN
Result 1.71 % CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Little Butte Volcanic Series
    Rock description Little Butte Volcanic Series
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.63393, 43.59038

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 45-80 W
    Dip 65-70 S
    Thickness 2.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Bohemia

Land status

Ownership category Private
Area name Umpqua National Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 792.48M
    Overall depth 243.84M

Comments on the workings information

  • 18,000 FT OF WORKINGS ON NINE LEVELS CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION PB-32-TONS, ZN-3-TONS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 61, P. 311

  • Deposit

    LUTTON, R.J., 1962, GEOLOGY OF THE BOHEMIA MINING DISTRICT, LANE COUNTY, OREGON; UNIV. ARIZONA PHD DISSERTATION

  • Deposit

    TABER, J.W., 1949, A RECONNAISSANCE OF LODE MINES AND PROSPECTS IN THE BOHEMIA MINING DISTRICT, LANE AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES, OREGON; USBM INF. CIR. 7512

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E. AND BUDDINGTON, A.F., 1938, METALLIFEROUS MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CASCADE RANGE IN OREGON; USGS BULL. 893, P. 51

  • Production

    TABER (1949)

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

Beyond USGS

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