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Tempest

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Zinc, Arsenic, Copper, Antimony
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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. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033112
MRDS ID M015050
Record type Site
Current site name Tempest
Related records 10201568

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.60023, 44.71929 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Vinegar Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Fork John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Malheur 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 010S 034E 03 S Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR THE CHLORIDE MINE 4 UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLES FROM THE DUMP AVERAGED A TRACE OF AU AND 4.00 OZ/TON AU (ALLEN, 1948)

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.60023, 44.71929
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 35 E
    Dip 90
    Width 1.52M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: VEINS CONSIST OF CRUSHED AND SERICITIZED GRANODIORITE IN WHICH ARE SMALL LENSES AND STRINGERS OF QUARTZ WITH SULFIDES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Greenhorn

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Malheur Natioal Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Larry Lyons
    Home office John Day, Or.
    First year 1981

Comments on the production information

  • PROBABLY SMALL, ALTHOUGH "QUITE A LITTLE ORE WAS SHIPPED" PRIOR TO 1916.

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHORT ADITS. PROBABLY SMALL, ALTHOUGH #QUITE A LITTLE ORE WAS SHIPPED# PRIOR TO 1916.

Comments on development

  • ABOUT 100 TONS OF ORE MILLEDAT THE BUFFALO MILL IN X

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES, 1941 , ODGMI, BULL 14 - B, P. 93.

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI, BULL 61 , P. 119 .

  • Deposit

    ALLEN, R.M., 1948, GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION OF THE MORNING MINE AND ADJACENT REGION, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 39, P.35

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SAID TO BE 5 VEINS

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
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

Beyond USGS

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