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Summit Vein

Occurrence in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036576
MRDS ID M025443
Record type Site
Current site name Summit Vein
Alternate or previous names Part of the Elk Heaven Group
Related records 10298725

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.30411, 44.87318 (WGS84)
Elevation 2225

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Ireland(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Wallowa-Whitman 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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 008S 036E 16 NE Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result REPORTEDLY ASSAYED 0.26 OZ/TON AU AND 3.27 OZ/TON AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Bald Mountain Batholith
    Rock description Bald Mtn. Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Mica Schist
    Rock unit name Elkhorn Ridge Argillite
    Rock description Elkhorn Ridge Argillite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.30411, 44.87318
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N80E
    Dip 65-70 SE
    Width 1.83M

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEIN IN STRONGLY METAMORPHOSED SEDIMENTS ROUGHLY PARALLELS INTRUSIVE CONTACT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cable Cove District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHORT ADITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FERNS, M.L. AND OTHERS, 1982, MAP OF THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE MT. IRELAND QUADRANGLE, BAKER AND GRANT COUNTIES, OREGON; ODGMI MAP (IN PREPARATION)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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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