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Timber Canyon Mine

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033359
MRDS ID M015681
Record type Site
Current site name Timber Canyon Mine
Related records 10224992

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.34463, 44.75514 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sparta(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 009S 044E 28 W OF W Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.34463, 44.75514
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEIN CONSISTS OF A FEW INCHES TO SEVERAL FEET OF MASSIVE WHITE QUARTZ WITH LIMONITE STRINGERS AND CREVICES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1890
Discoverer Lou Jennings

Mining district

District name Sparta

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES NOT AVAILABLE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 411.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • PROPERTY IS CAVED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PROTSKA, H.J. AND BATEMAN, R.L., 1962, GEOLOGY OF THE SPARTA QUADRANGLE, ODGMI GMS-1, GEOLOGIC MAP

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C., MCINTYRE, J.R, AND WALKER, G.W., 1977, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE OREGON PART OF THE BAKER 1 DEG BY 2 DEG QUADRANGLE, ODGMI GMS-7, GEOLOGIC MAP

  • Deposit

    1939 RECON ODGMI, FILE REPOR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-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

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