1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Winberry Prospects

Occurrence in Lane county in Oregon, United States with commodity Gold
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036480
MRDS ID M025298
Record type Site
Current site name Winberry Prospects
Related records 10201607

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.60449, 43.88538 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lane(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Saddleblanket Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Oakridge(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Roseburg(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Fork 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 Lane

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 019S 002E 29 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • ON BOTH FORKS OF WINBERRY CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Analytical data

Result ODGMI SAMPLES ASSAYED TRACE - 70 CENTS/TON (TRACE - 0.02 OZ/TON AU)

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.60449, 43.88538
ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ONLY SLIGHTLY ALTERED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Winberry

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Willamette National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • 50 FOOT ADIT AND NUMEROUS OPEN CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MASON, R.S. AND OTHERS, 1977, MINERALIZATION IN THE NORTH-CENTRAL WESTERN CASCADES; ORE BIN, VOL. 39, NO. 12, P. 201

  • Deposit

    SMITH, W.D., 1938, THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF LANE COUNTY, OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 11, P. 45

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-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

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Maps centered on this site