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Red Boy Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Arsenic, Copper, Gold, Mercury, Silver
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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. 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 10274077
MRDS ID W002491
MAS/MILS ID 0410230114
Record type Site
Current site name Red Boy Mine
Alternate or previous names Jay Bird, May Queen, Mineral Wonder, Poor Boy
Related records 10105518

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.47795, 44.79595 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
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

Granite(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

Umatilla 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 009 S 035 E 10 NESESE Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Mercury Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -118.47795, 44.79595
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 7015, 1933, P. 15.

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 14-B, 1941, P. 60.

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 55, 1963, P. 216.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 8252, 1965, P.

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 61, 1968, P. 116.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-AUG-1992 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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