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Murphy Prospect

Occurrence in Jackson county in Oregon, United States with commodities Mercury, 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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040953
MRDS ID M055848
Record type Site
Current site name Murphy Prospect
Alternate or previous names Rattlesnake Group, Noe, B & W Mining Co
Related records 10201675

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.18975, 42.10316 (WGS84)
Elevation 1055

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Carberry Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Applegate(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Jackson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 040S 004W 09 SW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SW/4 SEC 9

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BASICALLY A MERCURY PROSPECT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Mercury Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Locally The Rocks In The Shear Zones Are Crushed And Altered To Soft Masses Of Clay, Limonite And Calcite. In Places The Rocks Are Weakly Silicified

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock
    Rock unit name Applegate Group
    Rock description Applegate Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.18975, 42.10316
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shear Zone

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Workings Expose Several Small Shear Zone Of Various Attitudes And Ranging From A Few Inches To Several Feet Wide

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SCHEELITE NOT GENETICALLY RELATED TO CINNABAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1935
Discoverer Milton Murphy, E. S. Noe

Mining district

District name Upper Applegate

Land status

Ownership category Federal
Area name Rogue River National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Robert Wells
    First year 1963

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 198.12M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., 1963, QUICKSILVER IN OREGON: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, BULL. 55, 223 P., P. 87

  • Deposit

    WOLFE, H. D. AND WHITE, D. J., 1951, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON TUNGSTEN IN OREGON: ODGMI GMI SHORT PAPER 22, P. 19

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1976 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1981 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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