La Belleview

Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Antimony, Zinc, Arsenic
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Production statistics
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032984
MRDS ID M014822
Record type Site
Current site name La Belleview
Related records 10152590

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.34966, 44.89068 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Crawfish Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 008S 036E 06 S Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • ON ONION CREEK ABOUT 10 MILES BY ROAD NORTHEAST OF GRANITE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • VALUES WERE HIGHEST AT THE INTERSECTION OF TWO ORE SHOOTS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) In Area Of Highly Metamorphosed Argillite

Analytical data

Result TEN DUMP SAMPLES TAKEN BY YOUNG (1979) GIVE AN ARITHMATIC AVERAGE OF 0.05 OZ/TON AU
Result 1.14 OZ/TON AG
Result 0.02 % CU
Result 0.03 % PB
Result 0.15 % ZN
Result 0.43 % AS
Result AND 0.01 % SB

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) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Elkhorn Ridge Argillite
    Rock description Elkhorn Ridge Argillite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.34966, 44.89068

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 35 TO 45 E
    Dip 65 TO 70 NW
    Width 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: VEINS COMPRISED MAINLY OF CRUSHED ROCKS WITH SEAMS AND LENSES OF QUARTZ CONTAINING SULFIDES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Production years WORK BEGUN IN 1878 .

Mining district

District name Granite

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Production statistics

  • Year 1940
    Material ORE AVG
    Description Ap_Grade: ^.17oz/Ton Au
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 5g/mt

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION ESTIMATED AT $500,000 . 1939 - 1941 OPERATIONS UTILIZED 50 TONS-PER-DAY FLOTATION PLANT.

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY 4 ADITS; TOTAL ABOUT 6000 FEET OF DRIFTS AND CROSSCUTS. PRODUCTION ESTIMATED AT $500,000 . 1939 - 1941 OPERATIONS UTILIZED 50 TONS-PER-DAY FLOTATION PLANT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 61, P.65, 79

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941; ODGMI BULL. 14-B, P. 52

  • Deposit

    YOUNG, J.S., 1979, PARAGENESIS AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE GRANITE GOLD DISTRICT, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON; COLORADO STATE UNIV. MS THESIS

  • Production

    CALCULATED FROM PRODUCTION FIGURES IN ODGMI BULL. 61

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1980 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) 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.

External references