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Mccauley Prospect

Occurrence in Jackson county in Oregon, United States with commodity 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  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 10036424
MRDS ID M025221
Record type Site
Current site name Mccauley Prospect
Related records 10207608

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.0292, 42.48121 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Rogue(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(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 Jackson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 035S 003W 32 SW OF SW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 OF THE SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock
    Rock unit name Applegate Group
    Rock description Applegate Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.0292, 42.48121
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form POCKETS
    Strike N60E
    Dip 90
    Width 0.41M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1912

Mining district

District name Gold Hill

Comments on the production information

  • POSSIBLY SOME PRODUCTION FROM SURFACE POCKETS

Comments on the workings information

  • IN EXCESS OF 100 FEET OF TUNNELS POSSIBLY SOME PRODUCTION FROM SURFACE POCKETS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PETERSON, N.V., 1976, ODGMI UNPUBLISHED NOTES

  • Deposit

    WELLS, F.G. AND OTHERS, 1940, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE GRANTS PASS QUADRANGLE; ODGMI MAP WITH TEXT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WELLS (1940) SHOWS COUNTRY ROCK TO BE METASEDIMENTS AND METAVOLCANICS OF THE APPLEGATE GROUP ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-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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