Devil's Food

Occurrence in Crook county in Oregon, United States with commodity 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. 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. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041045
MRDS ID M055962
Record type Site
Current site name Devil's Food
Alternate or previous names Westbrook, Endicott, Ridge Claim
Related records 10177251

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.32999, 44.35234 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lookout Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Prineville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bend(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Crooked(hydrologic unit)

Deschutes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Ochoco 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 Crook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 014S 020E 16 SE OF CENTER Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SE/4 SEC 16, LOCATED AT CENTER OF QUARTER SECTION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chalcedony Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinization

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.32999, 44.35234

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Johnson Creek Fault Zone

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Altered Andesite Adjacent Dike

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1932
Discoverer J. H. Shelton, Robert Osborne

Mining district

District name Johnson Creek

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Ochoco National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner David Westbrook And Jack Campbell

Comments on the production information

  • NONE RECORDED, PROBABLY 1 FL

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • UNDERGROUND WORKINGS CAVED. NONE RECORDED , PROBABLY 1 FL.

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

  • Deposit

    1957 DIREXPL DME

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RECORD NUMBER M055988 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-AUG-1976 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1980 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.