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Wild Cat Basin

Occurrence in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040216
MRDS ID M054906
Record type Site
Current site name Wild Cat Basin
Alternate or previous names Mill
Related records 10249889

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.75133, 44.28429 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pine Creek Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

John Day(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Malheur National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Strawberry Mountain Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness 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 015S 033E 10 CENTER OF N Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • DREDGED GROUND INCLUDES THE POWDER RIVER VALLEY FROM DEER CREEK TO SUMPTER IN ADDITION TO MC CULLY FORK AND CRACKER CREEK. ABOUT 8 MI OF VALLEY DREDGED. LOCATION GIVEN IS ON POWDER RIVER AT SUMPTER; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = BOURNE 1:24000
  • N/2 OF TOWNSHIP, LOCATED AT CENTER OF N/2

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LARGEST NUGGET WEIGHED 1 PENNYWEIGHT

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvial deposits
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • BEDROCK IS ARGILLITE WITH MINOR GRANODIORITE. ON ADJACENT SLOPES OF UPPER PARTS OF CRACKER CREEK AND MC CULLY FORK ARE BENCH GRAVELS AND SCATTERED REMNANTS OF EARLY TERTIARY DRAINAGE SYSTEM WHICH HAS BEEN THE SOURCE OF CONSIDERABLE PLACER GOLD.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1927
Discoverer R. L. Martin

Mining district

District name Canyon (?)

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Malheur Natioal Forest

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION DATA INCLUDES RECORDED OUTPUT FROM ALL DREDGES. SUMPTER DREDGES PRODUCED MORE GOLD THAN ANY OTHER PLACER IN THE STATE AND EXCEEDED LODE OUTPUT MOST OF THE TIME. REPORTEDLY SMALL BYPRODUCT PT PRODUCTION

Comments on the workings information

  • ALL THE DREDGES COMBINED COVERED 2,603 ACRES AND HANDLED 60,625,514 YARDS OF GRAVEL. EARLY WORK WAS BY HAND AND HYDRAULIC MINING

Comments on development

  • OPERATIONS WERE NEARLY CONTINUOUS DURING 1913-1924 AND 1935-1954

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., 1963, QUICKSILVER IN OREGON: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, BULL. 55, 223 P.

  • Deposit

    MERCURY IN OREGON, 1965, USBM IC 8252

  • Deposit

    FREDERICK, F., 1945, STATE OF OREGON MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOL. AND MIN. INDUSTRIES, SCALE 1:1,000,000

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CLAY BEDROCK IS PRESENT AT ABOUT 15 FT. MOST OF GOLD IS LOCATED NEAR BEDROCK.
Deposit RECORD M045457 HAS BEEN MERGED AND DELETED.
Deposit CONSV. RECORD ( M015025 ) HAS BEEN MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE. ; INFO.SRC : BAILEY E H

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1976 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1978 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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