Frazier Property

Occurrence in Wallowa county in Oregon, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Lead
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. Ore body information
  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 10033338
MRDS ID M015655
Record type Site
Current site name Frazier Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.26546, 45.14764 (WGS84)
Elevation 2560

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wallowa(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eagle Cap(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Enterprise(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Grangeville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imnaha(hydrologic unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower 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)

Eagle Cap Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Wallowa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 005S 044E 12 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • THE PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 3 PATENTED CLAIMS ON HAWKINS PASS IN THE EAGLE CAP WILDERNESS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Molybdenum Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Wallowa Batholith
    Rock description Wallowa Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Martin Bridge Formation
    Rock description Martin Bridge Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.26546, 45.14764

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form ELLIPTICAL

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION OCCURS IN A TACTITE ZONE ALONG THE MARGINS OF A BLOCK OF LIMESTONE WITHIN THE GRANODIORITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1905
Discoverer Irwin Frazier

Mining district

District name Wallowa

Land status

Ownership category Private
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SEVEN ADITS, SEVEN PITS AND ONE SHAFT; LONGEST ADIT IS 35 FT LONG.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WEISS, P.L., AND OTHERS, 1976, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE EAGLE CAP WILDERNESS AND ADJACENT AREAS: USGS BULL. 1385-E, P. 78.

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939, ODGMI BULL. 14-A, P. 116

  • Deposit

    HESS, F.L., AND LARSEN, E.J., 1921, CONTACT METAMORPHIC TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES: USGS BULL. 725-E, P. 308.

  • Deposit

    SMITH, W.D., AND OTHERS, 1941, THE GEOLOGY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE NORTHERN WALLOWA MOUNTAINS, ODGMI BULL. 12, P. 42

  • Deposit

    1970 GEOLMAP MAP IN WEISS AND OTHERS, 1976

  • Deposit

    1970 RECON WEISS, P.L. AND OTHERS, REF. 1

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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.