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Red Dike

Occurrence in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Arsenic
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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 10036580
MRDS ID M025447
Record type Site
Current site name Red Dike
Related records 10274032

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.28438, 44.84763 (WGS84)
Elevation 2195

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(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)

Powder(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(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 Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 008S 036E 22 SE Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

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
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.28438, 44.84763
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 1.52M

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

  • SURFACE TRENCHES AND TWO SHORT ADITS

Comments on development

  • SURFACE MAPPING AND SAMPLING BY SEVERAL COMPANIES IN 1981

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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