Mount Vernon Deposit

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodity Asbestos
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10152387
MRDS ID M014865
MAS/MILS ID 0410230119
Record type Site
Current site name Mount Vernon Deposit
Alternate or previous names Mount Vernon, Oregon Asbestos, Coast Asbestos Co.
Related records 10109355

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -119.06046, 44.44425 (WGS84)
Elevation 991
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Vernon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dayville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 013 S 030 E 13 NWNWNW Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Asbestos Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -119.06046, 44.44425

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 14-B, 1941, P. 39.

  • Deposit

    THE ORE BIN, V. 25, NO. 10, OCT. 1963, P. 171.

  • Deposit

    THE ORE BIN, V. 27, NO. 3, MAR. 1965, P. 53.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-AUG-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.