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Lowgrade Claims

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098332
MRDS ID M015080
Record type Site
Current site name Lowgrade Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.58408, 44.68736 (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 16 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION UNCERTAIN. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY CORRESPONDS WITH ARGONAUT LOCATION.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Elkhorn Ridge Argillite
    Rock description Elkhorn Ridge Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.58408, 44.68736
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pleasant Valley

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Ketell Investment Corp.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Frunk De Merrit And Ray Mayfield

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION OF 206 TONS OF 25 % MANGANESE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C., MCINTYRE, J.R. AND WALKER, G.W., 1977, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE OREGON PART OF THE BAKER 1 DEG BY 2 DEG QUADRANGLE, GMS-7, ODGMI

  • Deposit

    1954, RECON ODGMI FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    1954 RECON ODGMI, FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, 1954, FILE REPORT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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