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Tone Spring Mine

Occurrence in Grant 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036623
MRDS ID M025499
Record type Site
Current site name Tone Spring Mine
Related records 10249624

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.46661, 44.72291 (WGS84)
Elevation 1676

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Greenhorn(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 010S 035E 02 SW Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.46661, 44.72291
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Nw Trending Fault Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE VEIN IS A LIMONITIC QUARTZ BRECCIA WITH SULPHIDE STRINGERS IN MASSIVE QUARTZ

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Greenhorn Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner E. J. Evasso
    First year 1980

Comments on the workings information

  • ABOUT 400 FT OF WORKINGS IN ONE CAVED ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FERNS, M.L. AND BROOKS, H.C., 1981, MAP OF THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE GREENHORN QUADRANGLE; ODGMI MAPPING IN PROGRESS

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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