Sunday Hill

Past Producer in Malheur county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic, Lead, Zinc
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033312
MRDS ID M015622
Record type Site
Current site name Sunday Hill
Related records 10250793

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.60352, 44.44292 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Malheur(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mormon Basin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Brogan(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Willow(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(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 Malheur

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 013S 042E 17 E Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Mica Schist
    Rock unit name Burnt River Schist
    Rock description Burnt River Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.60352, 44.44292

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Intrusions Locallized Along A Major Ne Trending Structure

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Mormon Basin

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Capri Resources, Ltd.

Comments on the workings information

  • 50 TON BULL MILL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON, 1968, ODGMI BULL. 61, P. 129, 135.

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939, BULL. 14-A, P. 83.

  • Deposit

    WOLFF, E.N., 1965, GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE CAVINESS QUADRANGLE, OREGON: UNIV. OF OREGON PHD. THESIS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-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
Updater 01-MAY-1995 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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