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Pleasant Valley Tuff

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098288
MRDS ID M014390
Record type Site
Current site name Pleasant Valley Tuff
Alternate or previous names Oregon Lava Stone Co., Ideal Quarry
Related records 10177263, 10273436

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.61741, 44.6743 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oxman(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker 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

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 Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 010S 042E 19 SE OF SW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4 SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.61741, 44.6743
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pleasant Valley

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL VOLUME PRODUCED IS UNKNOWN. MANY OF THE LARGER BUILDINGS OF BAKER HAVE BEEN BUILT OF THIS STONE.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • GILLULY (1937) INDICATES A LARGE RESERVE OF STONE AVAILABLE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GILLULY, J., 1937, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE BAKER QUADRANGLE, OREGON; USGS BULL. 879, P.115

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RECORD NUMBER (M014340) MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-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

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