Lady Slipper Prospect

Occurrence in Jackson county in Oregon, United States with commodity Tungsten
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008866
MRDS ID D001343
Record type Site
Current site name Lady Slipper Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.09836, 42.36566 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Isabelle(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Rogue(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(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 Jackson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 037S 003W 07 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock
    Rock unit name Applegate Group;Applegate Group;Applegate Group
    Rock description Applegate Group;Applegate Group;Applegate Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.09836, 42.36566

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Hornfels Along Contact With Diorite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold Hill

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY ABOUT 150 FT OF DRIFTS AND CROSSCUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WOLFE, H.D., AND WHITE, D.J., 1951, OREGON DEPT. GEOL. AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES G.M.I. SHORT PAPER 22.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1980 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Editor 09-JUN-1995 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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