Camp Creek Prospects

Occurrence in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Silver, Zinc
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095161
MRDS ID M015699
Record type Site
Current site name Camp Creek Prospects
Related records 10127957

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.21715, 44.30264 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rastus Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

John Day(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Burnt(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Wallowa-Whitman 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 Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
014S 037E 31 SE Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • PROSPECT CONSISTS OF APPROXIMATELY 300 CLAIMS IN A STRIP ONE MILE WIDE AND EIGHT MILES LONG

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Molybdenum Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 79
USGS model code 21a
Deposit model name Porphyry Cu-Mo
Mark3 model number 2

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Rock unit name Weatherby Formation
    Rock description Weatherby Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) Sedimentary rocks

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Mineralized Zone Trends Approximately N 45 Deg W

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION CONSISTS OF DISSEMINATED PYRITE IN SILICIFIED PORPHYRY DIKES AND ADJACENT SILICIFIED SEDIMENTARY ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Unity

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Preussag Of Canada Ltd.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Johns Mansville Corp.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LOWERY, W.D., 1968, GEOLOGY OF THE IRONSIDE MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, ODGMI OPEN-FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C., FERNS, M.L., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BULL RUN ROCK QUADRANGLE, OREGON; ODGMI OPEN FILE REPORT 0-79-6

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND OTHERS, 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE RASTUS MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, OREGON; ODGMI OPEN FILE REPORT 0-79-7

  • Deposit

    1968 GEOLMAP ODGMI OPEN FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    1979 GEOLMAP ODGMI GEOL MAP RASTUS MTN. QUAD. 0-79-7

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit JOHNS MANSVILLE IS CURRENTLY CONDUCTING AN EXTENSIVE EXAMINATION; INCLUDING APPROXIMATELY 5000 FEET OF DIAMOND DRILLING IN 1978 AND 1979.
Deposit TREND OF MINERALLIZED ZONE PARALLELS TERTIARY STRUCTURES AND CUTS ACROSS NORTHEAST PRETERTIARY STRUCTURES. ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-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
Updater 01-MAY-1995 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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