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Copper Butte Group

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Copper, Gold
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098287
MRDS ID M014358
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Butte Group
Alternate or previous names Gilkeson, Copper Queen
Related records 10152837

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.52464, 44.94347 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sawtooth Ridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Powder(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
Willamette 007S 042E 23 E OF E Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ON UPPER CLOVER CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Copper Ore
Cuprite Ore
Malachite Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone
    Rock unit name Clover Creek Greenstone
    Rock description Clover Creek Greenstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.52464, 44.94347
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shattered Zone In The Greenstone

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE MINERALS ARE CONCENTRATED ALONG FRACTURES AND DISSEMINATED IN THE UNBROKEN ROCK ; GEOL.DESC: UPPER PART OF FLOW IS HIGHLY AMYGDALOIDAL, WHILE LOWER PART IS DENSE IN CHARACTER.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eagle Creek

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner M. Cook Or Copper Co.

Comments on the production information

  • THIS PROPERTY ONCE HAD A SMALL FURNACE CONSTRUCTED ON IT; ABOUT 100 TONS OF 12 % COPPER WERE SHIPPED IN THE EARLY DAYS.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SURFACE CROSSCUTS AND CROSSCUTTING RAISES WOULD BEST DETERMINE HOW MUCH OF THE FLOW CONTAINS COPPER. THERE ARE NO MEASURED OR INDICATED RESERVES.

Comments on the workings information

  • A FEW SHORT TUNNELS AND SHALLOW SHAFTS. ALSO, SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET OF DOZER TRENCHES.THIS PROPERTY ONCE HAD A SMALL FURNACE CONSTRUCTED ON IT; ABOUT 100 TONS OF 12 % COPPER WERE SHIPPED IN THE EARLY DAYS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - A, P. 46 .

  • Deposit

    HULL, D. H., 1976, COPPER BUTTE MINE: ODGMI UNPUBLISHED REPORT.

  • Deposit

    HAMMITT, R. W., 1972, THE GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF COPPER DEPOSITS NEAR KEATING, OREGON: UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, THESIS.

  • Deposit

    1975 REON ODGMI UNPUB. REPOR

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE MINERALIZED ZONE IS ABOUT 700 FEET LONG AND 100 FEET WIDE AT THE SURFACE.
Deposit RECORD NUMBER (M014360) MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1980 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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