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Oregon Grape

Occurrence in Crook county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036631
MRDS ID M025511
Record type Site
Current site name Oregon Grape
Related records 10274125

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.54693, 43.97484 (WGS84)
Elevation 1554

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sugarloaf Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Brothers(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Crescent(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Crooked(hydrologic unit)

Deschutes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Crook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 018S 018E 27 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Clarno
    Rock description Clarno
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.54693, 43.97484
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 1.52M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE VEIN IS A HEAVILY PYRITIZED FRACTURE ZONE IN BLEACHED VOLCANICS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bear Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY A 50 FT SHAFT AND TWO SHORT CROSSCUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NIXON, E.K., AND TREASHER, R.G., 1939, OREGON GRAPE CLAIM, UNPUBLISHED ODGMI FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    WALKER, G.W., AND OTHERS, 1967, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE EAST HALF OF THE CRESCENT QUADRANGLE, LAKE, DESCHUTES, AND CROOK COUNTIES, OREGON: USGS GEOLOGIC MAP I-493.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FAULT ZONE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1982 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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