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Friday Mine Inc.

Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032637
MRDS ID M014267
Record type Site
Current site name Friday Mine Inc.
Alternate or previous names Columbia - Friday
Related records 10159069

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.64881, 44.79347 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Virtue Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker 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

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 Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 009S 041E 11 NE OF SE Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4 SE 1/4. LOCATED 10 MILES EAST OF BAKER JUST EAST OF HIDDEN TREASURE NEAR THE BAKER-CORNUCOPIA HIGHWAY.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro

Nearby scientific data

(1) Gabbroic rocks
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION CONSISTS OF SMALL QUARTZ STRINGERS IN A MINERALIZED SHEAR ZONE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Virtue

Comments on the production information

  • ONE 50-TON CAR OF ORE WAS SHIPPED TO THE SMELTER.

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY 200-FOOT INCLINED SHAFT WITH SHORT DRIFT LEVELS. ONE 50-TON CAR OF ORE WAS SHIPPED TO THE SMELTER.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 61 , P. 142 .

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - A, P. 106

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND MC INTYRE, J.R., 1977, RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE VIRTUE FLAT QUADRANGLE; ODGMI OPEN-FILE GEOL. MAP

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit EAST EXTENTION OF HIDDEN TREASURE
Deposit CONSV. RECORD ( M014265 ) MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1980 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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