| Deposit ID | 10098534 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M061659 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Lucky Strike |
| Related records | 10176906 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -123.68143, 42.17343 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 500 |
| Relative position | 2 MI WEST OF CAVE JUNCTION |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Josephine(county)
Oregon(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Cave Junction(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Grants Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Illinois(hydrologic unit)
Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)
Oregon-Washington Coastal(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Oregon | Josephine |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willamette | 039S | 008W | 18 | SE4 OF NE4 OF SE4 | Oregon |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Chromium Critical | Primary |
| Palladium Critical | Tertiary |
| Platinum Critical | Tertiary |
| Rhodium Critical | Tertiary |
| Iridium Critical | Tertiary |
| Ruthenium Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Chromite | Ore |
| Olivine | Gangue |
| Serpentine | Gangue |
| Result | 4 ASSAYS: DISSEMINATED, 21.20% CR2O3, 9.39% FE |
|---|---|
| Result | MASSIVE WITH SERPENTINE, 42.60% CR2O3, 11.70% FE AND 43.08% CR2O3, 10.97% FE |
| Result | PANNED CONCENTRATE, 51.30% CR2O3, 11.54% FE. 1 PGE ANALYSIS: PD=7 PPB |
| Result | PT=81 PPB |
| Result | IR=300 PPB |
| Result | RU=700 PPB |
| Result | RH=58 PPB. CR:FE=2.5 IN HAND SORTED MASSIVE ORE |
| Model code | 15 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 8a |
| Deposit model name | Podiform chromite (minor) |
| Mark3 model number | none |
| Host or associated | Host | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Harzburgite | ||||
| Rock unit name | Pearsoll Peak Ophiolite | ||||
| Rock description | Pearsoll Peak Ophiolite | ||||
| |||||
| (1) | -123.68143, 42.17343 |
|---|
| General form | MASSIVE, DISSEMINATED |
|---|---|
| Strike | N15E |
| Dip | 45W |
| Width | 0.3M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Don King |
| First year | 1958 |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Jim Breeding, Murphy And Glenn Young |
| First year | 1961 |
| Year | 1955 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material | ORE | ||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Estimate | ||||||||||||||
| Description | Ap_Grade: ^44% Cr2o3 | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Year | 1958 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material | ORE | ||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Estimate | ||||||||||||||
| Description | Ap_Grade: ^44-48% Cr2o3 (Conc.) | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 7.62M |
| Overall length | 91.44M |
| Overall width | 15.24M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M061659 | |
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0410330550 |
RAMP, LEN, 1961, CHROMITE IN SOUTHWESTERN OREGON: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN 52, P. 157.
THAYER, T.P., 1974, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, UNPUB. DATA
PAGE, N.J, JOHNSON, M.G., HAFFTY, JOSEPH, AND RAMP, LEN, 1975, OCCURRENCE OF PLATINUM GROUP METALS IN ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS OF THE MEDFORD-COOS BAY 2 DEGREE QUADRANGLE, SOUTHWESTERN OREGON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-694, SCALE 1:250,000.
RAMP, LEN, AND PETERSON, N.V., 1979, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MIINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN 100, TABLE 1.
CARLSON, C.A., AND OTHERS, 1985, ANALYSES FOR PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENTS IN SAMPLES FROM PODIFORM CHROMITE DEPOSITS, CALIFORNIA AND OREGON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-442, 14 P.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | CHROMITE ZONE IS SINUOUS AND DISCONTINUOUS |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-MAY-1976 | Johnson, Maureen G. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-MAR-1981 | Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) | Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries | |
| Updater | 01-JUN-1989 | Peterson, Jocelyn A. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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