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Ajax Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102953
MRDS ID M014809
Record type Site
Current site name Ajax Mine
Related records 10274106

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.40549, 44.85679 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Granite(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Umatilla 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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 008S 035E 22 E Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • E 1/2, IN LUCAS GULCH, 3 MILES NORTH OF GRANITE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result GOLD - SILVER RATIO 1 :

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) -118.40549, 44.85679
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 70 E
    Dip 47 - 63 SE
    Width 1.83M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: INTERSECTING SHEAR ZONES CONTAIN DISCONTINOUS QUARTZ SEAMS AND VEINS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Production years 1905 - 1906

Mining district

District name Granite

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Umatilla National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • $40,000 TAKEN FROM 80 FT. SHOOT IN UPPER TUNNEL FIVE-STAMP MILL ON PROPERTY AT ONE TIME. MILL RECORD UNAVAILABLE.

Comments on the workings information

  • LOWER TUNNEL EXTENDS SEVERAL HUNDRED FT. NE WITH CROSSCUTS N; CENTRAL TUNNEL 500 FT. LONG; UPPER TUNNEL ON SNOWBIRD CLAIM SEVERAL HUNDRED FT. LONG; 35 FT. SHAFT. $40,000 TAKEN FROM 80 FT. SHOOT IN UPPER TUNNEL, FIVE-STAMP MILL WAS ON THE PROPERTY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941 , ODGMI, BULL 14 - B, P. 41 .

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, M. C. AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON, ODGMI BULL. 61 , P. 77 .

  • Deposit

    YOUNG, J.S., 1979, PARAGENESIS AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE GRANITE GOLD DISTRICT: COLARADO STATE UNIV. MS. THESIS

  • Deposit

    KOCH, G.S., 1959, LODE MINES OF THE CENTRAL PART OF THE GRANITE MINING DISTRICT, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 49, P.13.

Reporter information

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

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