Evening Star

Occurrence in Wallowa county in Oregon, United States with commodities Copper, Gold
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033342
MRDS ID M015659
Record type Site
Current site name Evening Star
Related records 10128259

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.7463, 45.77514 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wallowa(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cactus Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grangeville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Grangeville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imnaha(hydrologic unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Wallowa-Whitman 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 Wallowa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 004N 044E 31 S Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • ON BOTH SIDES OF THE IMNAHA RIVER ABOUT THREE MILES FROM SNAKE RIVER

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.7463, 45.77514

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 0.2M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE VEIN FILLING IS PARTLY QUARTZ AND PARTLY ALTERED COUNTRY ROCK, BOTH OF WHICH CONTAIN SPARSELY DISSEMINATED PYRITE AND CHALCOPYRITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Imnaha River

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHORT TUNNELS AND ONE SHALLOW DRIFT ABOUT 35 FT IN LENGTH

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LIBBEY, F.W., 1943, SOME MINERAL DEPOSITS IN THE AREA SURROUNDING THE JUNCTION OF THE SNAKE AND IMNAHA RIVERS: ODGMI, GMI SHORT PAPER NO. 11, P.

  • Deposit

    1942 RECON ODGMI, REF.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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

Beyond USGS

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