Last Chance Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Arsenic, Lead, Zinc
Sections on this page
  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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102954
MRDS ID M014828
Record type Site
Current site name Last Chance Mine
Related records 10176791

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.26466, 44.87041 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Ireland(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

Wallowa-Whitman 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 036E 14 Oregon

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Silver Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORE IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY HIGH GRADE TO PAY OPERATING EXPENSES.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Bald Mountain Batholith
    Rock description Bald Mountain Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.26466, 44.87041

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 50 E
    Dip 80 SE
    Length 15.24M
    Width 0.46M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cable Cove

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION ESTIMATED AT $5000 . INACTIVE SINCE 1910

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ADITS AND 150 - FT. SHAFT; 400 FT DRIFT ON VEIN. PRODUCTION ESTIMATED AT $5000 . INACTIVE SINCE 1910

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI, BULL. 14 - A, P. 20

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941 , ODGMI, BULL. 14 - B, P. 16 .

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON, ODGMI, BULL. 61 ,P. 70 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY HIGH GRADE TO PAY OPERATING EXPENSES.
Deposit CONSV. RECORD ( M014826 ) HAS BEEN MERGED WITH THIS RECORD, AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE.

Reporter information

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

External references