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Copper City Prospects

Producer in Curry county in Oregon, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Arsenic
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043121
MRDS ID M061623
Record type Site
Current site name Copper City Prospects
Alternate or previous names Bonanza King and Collier Creek
Related records 10200711

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -124.05061, 42.40232 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Curry(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Horse Sign Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gold Beach(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cape Blanco(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Illinois(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)

Kalmiopsis Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Curry

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 037S 012W 1 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Copper Ore
Cuprite Ore
Erythrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Magnetite Gangue

Analytical data

Result GENERAL SAMPLE FROM A NUMBER OF POINTS ASSAYED 20.137% CU, .06OZ AU, .12OZ AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -124.05061, 42.40232
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION OCCURS AS PODS AND LENSES OF MAGNETITE, PYRITE, CHALCOPYRITE, AND COPPER OXIDES IN SHEARED SERPENTINITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1898 -1914

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Siskiyou National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RAMP, L. AND OTHERS, 1977, GEOLOGY, MINERAL RESOURCES AND ROCK MATERIAL OF CURRY COUNTY, OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 93, P.33

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1940, ODGMI BULL. 14-C, VOL. 1, P.50

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1240-E, 1982, MAP NO. 3.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COPPER SHOWINGS ARE SCATTERED OVER AN AREA 1.5 MILE LONG AND 0.75 MILE WIDE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1979 Johnson, Maureen G. 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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