Flagstaff

Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Antimony, Tungsten
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109337
MRDS ID M014247
Record type Site
Current site name Flagstaff
Alternate or previous names Yellowjacket Group
Related records 10152442

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.72575, 44.81403 (WGS84)
Elevation 1189
Relative position 7 MILES FROM BAKER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Virtue Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Powder(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 009S 041E 5 NW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Antimony Critical Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Clay Alteration

Analytical data

Result NO ASSAY SAMPLES WERE COLLECTED, BUT LINDGREN REPORTS AVERAGE VALUES OF $16 TO THE TON IN QUARTZ
Result ACCORDING TO MR. LAYDEN, LARGE QUANTITIES OF THE GOUGELIKE MATERIAL WILL ASSAY $5 TO THE TON, ON THE BASIS OF GOLD AT $20.67 AN OUNCE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.72575, 44.81403

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 45 E - N
    Dip 65 E & W
    Width 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: "HORSE TAIL" ARRANGEMENT OF VEINS - SUGGESTS TORSION ABOUT A STEEPLY INCLINED AXIS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Production years BEFORE 1898 ; 1923

Mining district

District name Virtue

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Ken Grabner

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION PROBABLY NOT MORE THAN $100,000

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • MR. LAYDEN BELIEVES THE FUTURE OF THE PROPERTY IS DEPENDENT ON LARGE SCALE MINING OF THE GOUGE LIKE MATERIAL.

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT CAVED DUE TO FIRE, 1937 TOTAL PRODUCTION PROBABLY NOT MORE THAN $100,000

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 61 , P. 142 .

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - A, P. 105 .

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D. M., UNPUBLISHED DATA

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D. M., AND TWETO, O. L., 1962 , TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP MR - 25 .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1979 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) 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