Barnes Butte

Past Producer 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. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Production statistics
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041057
MRDS ID M055976
Record type Site
Current site name Barnes Butte
Alternate or previous names Prineville Quicksilver
Related records 10128587

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.81944, 44.32594 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Prineville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Prineville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bend(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Crooked(hydrologic unit)

Deschutes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management OR)

Bureau of Land Management OR BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Crook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 014S 016E 28 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN A SADDLE ON BARNES BUTTE, APPROXIMATELY ONE AND A HALF MILES NORTHEAST OF PRINEVILLE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Opal Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermal Alteration , Silicification Of Rhyolite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Clarno Formation
    Rock description Clarno Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.81944, 44.32594

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Small Fractures , Major Fault Trending N70e

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SOME ORE SORTED FROM OPALITE BOULDERS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1940
Discoverer Current Owners
Production years 1940 - 1942

Mining district

District name Ochoco Creek

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. Mckenzie, R. Cunningham, H. Chapin

Production statistics

  • Year 1963
    Period To 1963
    Material HG
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^17-30 Lb/Ton
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Mercury Mercury 10620g/mt

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • MAY BE SMALL RESERVES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 99.06M
    Overall depth 12.19M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES

  • 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

  • Production

    BROOKS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1976 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1980 Horley, D., Walker, G. W. And 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.