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Big Dip

Occurrence in Morrow county in Oregon, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036690
MRDS ID M025582
Record type Site
Current site name Big Dip
Related records 10201183

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.62026, 45.03956 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Morrow(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Rock Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Heppner(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pendleton(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Morrow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 006S 026E 16 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • TWO AND ONE HALF MILES EAST OF STATE HIGHWAY 207 NEAR THE TOP OF PETERS BUTTE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Analytical data

Result 1.60% WO3

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.62026, 45.03956
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • SAMPLE DESCRIBED AS BEING ANGULAR FRAGMENTS OF VARIOUS METAMORPHIC ROCKS, SOME OF WHICH CONTAIN CONSIDERABLE SULFIDES. WALKER (1976) SHOWS COUNTRY ROCKS TO BE TUFFACEOUS SEDIMENTS, THE BASE OF WHICH IS A COURSE CONGLOMERATE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Boyd Keefer
    First year 1954

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WALKER, G. W., 1973, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PENDELTON QUADRANGLE, OREGON AND WASHINGTON: USGS MISC. GEOL. INV. MAP I-727

  • Deposit

    ASSAYS ON FILE AT ODGMI BAKER FIELD OFFICE, BAKER, OR

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LOCATION ONLY. NO SPECIFIC INFORMATION AVAILABLE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

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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