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Blue Ridge

Past Producer in Crook county in Oregon, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103783
MRDS ID M055195
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Ridge
Alternate or previous names Cinnabar Mines, Inc., Including the Number Mine
Related records 10298932

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.31277, 44.3554 (WGS84)
Elevation 1475

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lookout Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Prineville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bend(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Crooked(hydrologic unit)

Deschutes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Ochoco 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 Crook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 014S 020E 15 N OF SE Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • N/2 SE/4 SEC 15

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Clay Alteration Along Faults And Shear Zones. Also Argillic, Silicification, Carbonatization.

Analytical data

Result 9 TO 18 LB PER TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Rock unit name Clarno Formation, Andesite And Basalt Flows
    Rock description Clarno Formation, Andesite And Basalt Flows
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Clarno Formation
    Rock description Clarno Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.31277, 44.3554
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Prominent Fault Trending N50-65e, Dip 65-85 Se

Ore body information

  • General form POCKETS
    Strike JOHNSON CREEK FAULT ZONE AND SMALLER FRACTURES
    Dip STEEP

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Gouge

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: ANDESITE AND BASALT FLOWS OF THE EOCENE CLARNO FORMATION OVERLAIN BY LATER ANDESITE AND BASALT FLOWS AND TUFFS. PLUGS AND DIKES OF RHYOLITE AND ANDESITE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH EXTRUSIVE ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1930
Production years 1930-1933, 1936-1940

Mining district

District name Johnson Creek

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Ochoco National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Cinnabar Mines, Inc.
    First year 1942
  • Type Owner
    Owner C. T. Takahashi
    First year 1974

Comments on the production information

  • POSSIBLY 301 FL PRODUCED, FIGURE INCLUDES PRODUCTION FROM NUMBER ONE MINE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 182.88M
    Overall depth 36.58M
    Overall length 8.23M
    Overall width 0.61M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS AS OF ABOUT 1949. LAST ACTIVE 1955. SHAFT CAVED AT COLLAR. POSSIBLY 301 FL PRODUCED, FIGURES INCLUDES PRODUCTION FROM NUMBER 1 MINE.

Comments on development

  • 100 TON ROTARY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C., 1963, QUICKSILVER IN OREGON: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, BULL. 55, 223 P.

  • Production

    BROOKS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POCKETS OCCUR ON STEEPLY DIPPING FAULTS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1973 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1980 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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