Cowboy Mine

Past Producer in Josephine county in Oregon, United States with commodities Cobalt, Copper, Nickel
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10298548
MRDS ID M060661
MAS/MILS ID 0410330017
Record type Site
Current site name Cowboy Mine
Alternate or previous names East Cowboy
Related records 10042725

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -123.60945, 42.02012 (WGS84)
Elevation 790
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Josephine(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Takilma(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Illinois(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Josephine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 041 S 008 W 11 NE Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Nickel Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Unknown
Chalcocite Unknown
Chalcopyrite Unknown
Cobaltite Unknown
Cuprite Unknown
Epidote Unknown
Hematite Unknown
Limonite Unknown
Malachite Unknown
Pyrrhotite Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Serpentine Unknown
Sphalerite Unknown
Tenorite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -123.60945, 42.02012

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N00S
    Dip 55E
    Thickness 1.2M
    Length 52M
    Width 999999M
    Area 5HA
    Depth to top 99999M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 BRECCIA FILL
    Shape of Orebody #1 LENTICULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 SHEAR ZONE
    Shape of Orebody #2 IRREGULAR
    Shape of Orebody #3 PIPELIKE
    Primary mode of Origin METAMORPHISM
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. UNKNOWN
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 UNKNOWN
    Strike And Dip N00S:55E
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 9999
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Total Surface Area (HA) 5
    Date of Last Modification 821126

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1900
Year of first production 1916

Mining district

District name Takilma-Waldo

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented
Type of mineral rights Unknown
Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Queen Of Bronze Mining Co.
    Interest 100
    Year 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 846-B, 1933, P. 170.

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 14-C, 1942,

  • Deposit

    VOL. 2, P. 186.

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 100, 1979,

  • Deposit

    PLATE 2, NO. 446.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-AUG-92 Pierce, Paul A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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