Red Knob Claims

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodity Copper
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10033322
MRDS ID M015633
Record type Site
Current site name Red Knob Claims
Related records 10201000

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.39658, 44.95653 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Balm Creek Reservoir(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

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 007S 044E 13 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Copper Ore
Cuprite Ore
Malachite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.39658, 44.95653

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures In Greenstone

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION IS CONFINED TO SHEAR ZONES AND INCIPIENT FRACTURES IN RELATIVELY UNALTERED GREENSTONE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eagle Creek

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • 16 SHORT TONS OF 2.7% ORE WAS SHIPPED IN 1956.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WAGNER, N.S., AND BROOKS, H.C., 1956, ODGMI MEMORANDUM REPORT

  • Deposit

    WAGNER, N.S., AND BROOKS, H.C., 1957, MEMORANDUM REPORT: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES.

  • Deposit

    1957 RECON ODGMI FILE REPOR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1979 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) 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.