Fox Valley Prospects

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033009
MRDS ID M014863
Record type Site
Current site name Fox Valley Prospects
Alternate or previous names Black Butte Mine, Cohoe Mine
Related records 10280927

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.15385, 44.37652 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wolfinger Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dayville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 012S 030E 06 NW OF SW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • NW 1/4 SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.15385, 44.37652

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Mt. Vernon

Comments on the production information

  • LINDGREN (1901) REPORTS A SMALL BUT PERSISTENT OUTPUT OF PLACER GOLD FROM THE FOX BASIN AREA.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1901, GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON; USGS 22ND ANNUAL REPORT, PART 2, P. 720

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS (1903-1906) STATE THAT A 145 FOOT SHAFT HAD BEEN SUNK ON A QUARTZ LODE. A SMALL ($2000) PRODUCTION WAS REPORTED ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, 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.