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Mountain View

Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Arsenic
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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. 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 10032527
MRDS ID M014090
Record type Site
Current site name Mountain View

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.20355, 44.86985 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bourne(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Powder(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle 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 Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 008S 037E 17 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4, 4 MILES NORTH BOURNE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Bald Mountain Batholith
    Rock description Bald Mountain Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Elkhorn Ridge Argillite
    Rock description Elkhorn Ridge Argillite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Intrusive rocks
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 45 DEG E
    Dip 80 DEG S
    Width 1.22M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: VEIN IN ARGILLITE NEAR CONTACT WITH YOUNGER GRANODIORITE. VEIN FILLING IS SILICIFIED ARGILLITE BRECCIA AND GOUGE CUT BY QUARTZ SEAMS. THE ORE CONSISTS OF VEINS AND DISSEMINATIONS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cracker Creek

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • $100,000 BETWEEN 1904 AND 1906

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY 2 ADITS AND A 100 FOOT SHAFT.

Comments on development

  • MILL WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE IN 1907

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 61, P.76

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939; ODGMI BULL. 14-A, P.37

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND OTHERS, 1981, MAP OF THE GEOLOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE BOURNE QUADRANGLE, BAKER AND GRANT COUNTIES, OREGON; ODGMI MAP GMS-19

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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