Banfield

Past Producer in Douglas county in Oregon, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Mercury
Sections on this page
  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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040961
MRDS ID M055859
Record type Site
Current site name Banfield
Alternate or previous names South Umpqua Mining Co.
Related records 10225482

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.93254, 42.8351 (WGS84)
Elevation 671
Relative position 6 MI. S. OF DREW

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Douglas(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Richter Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Crater Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Umpqua(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Umpqua 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 Douglas

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 031S 002W 34 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Host Rocks Are Bleached Nearly White By Hydrothermal Solutions

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.93254, 42.8351

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR STRINGERS AND LENSES
    Strike N
    Dip E
    Width 9.14M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Altered Schist Belt Several Hundred Feet Wide , Which Is Bounded On The West By Diorite And On The East By Tertiary Volcanics

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1928, 1956

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Umpqua National Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner South Umpqua Mining Co.

Comments on the production information

  • DRILLED IN 1968 FOLLOWING A GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY. NO HG PRODUCTION

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Length 1066.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • DRILLED IN 1968 FOLLOWING A GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY. NO HG PRODUCTION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RAMP, L., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 75, P. 26

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1940: ODGMI BULL. 14-C, VOL. 1-COOS, CURRY, AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES, P. 128

  • 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

  • Deposit

    5) OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941, BULL

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references