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Maury Mountain Mines

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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10128177
MRDS ID M055191
MAS/MILS ID 0410130016
Record type Site
Current site name Maury Mountain Mines
Alternate or previous names Eicken Meyer
Related records 10040419

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -120.4305, 44.10404 (WGS84)
Elevation 1244
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mule Deer Ridge(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

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 Crook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 017 S 019 E 10 SE Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Unknown
Chalcedony Unknown
Cinnabar Unknown
Pyrite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -120.4305, 44.10404
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 4M
    Length 700M
    Width 40M
    Depth to top 20M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 SHEAR ZONE
    Shape of Orebody #1 IRREGULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 BRECCIA FILL
    Type of Orebody #3 REPLACEMENT
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. SLIGHT
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 ADV ARGILLIC
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #2 SILICIFICATION
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #3 CARBONITIZATION
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 830316
  • Area 10HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 10
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1930
Year of first production 1932

Mining district

District name Maury Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Taylor,C. F.
    Interest 96
    Home office California
    Year 1978
  • Type Owner
    Owner Tom And Ruby Davis
    Interest 4
    Home office Oregon
    Year 1978

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 55, 1963,

  • Deposit

    P. 154-155.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-JUL-92 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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