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Keystone

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
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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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098328
MRDS ID M014989
Record type Site
Current site name Keystone
Related records 10177297

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.70384, 44.54846 (WGS84)
Relative position IN A GULCH WEST OF WEST FORK OF DIXIE CREEK, 7 MILES FROM PRARIE CITY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dixie Meadows(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 012S 033E 02 S Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • 5 UNPATENTED LODE CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result LOW GRADE ORE
Result ASSAYS $8.50 FOR BASE ORE ( 1933 ).

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.70384, 44.54846
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NE
    Dip SW
    Width 1.22M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: THE PAY FORMS NARROW STREAK ON HANGING WALL, FOOTWALL, OR BOTH.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Quartzburg

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL OUTPUT IN 1882 AND 1889; NO OTHER RECORD AVAILABLE.

Comments on the workings information

  • POOR RECORD: PAY SHOOTS ARE SAID TO BE WORKED OUT DOWN TO CREEK LEVEL. SMALL OUTPUT IN 1882 AND 1889; NO OTHER RECORD AVAILABLE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 61 , P. 152 .

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK,1941 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - B, P. 119 .

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, F.R., 1975, GEOLOGY OF THE QUARTZBURG MINING DISTRICT, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON; OREGON STATE UNIV. MS. THESIS, P.91

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1980 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) 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.

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