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Snowstorm

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Copper, 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. 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 10033364
MRDS ID M015690
Record type Site
Current site name Snowstorm
Alternate or previous names Copper Spread
Related records 10280760

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.39269, 44.96014 (WGS84)
Relative position 3/4 MILES WEST OF THE LILY WHITE GUARD STATION

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 043E 12 S OF S Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • LONG. CHANGED FROM 123-23-30W TO 117-23-30W ON 9/13/91 BY D.F. USING ABOVE INFO

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.39269, 44.96014
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NE
    Dip 30NW

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eagle Creek

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • LINDGREN (1901) NOTES THAT SOME RUSTY QUARTZ WAS EXTRACTED AND MILLED AT THE LILY WHITE MILL.

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY A 160 FOOT INCLINE IN 1901.LINDGREN (1901) NOTES THAT SOME RUSTY QUARTZ WAS EXTRACTED AND MILLED AT THE LILY WHITE MILL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN,W., 1901, GEOLOGY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON; USGS ANN REPORT NO. 22, P.738

  • Deposit

    PROTSKA, H.J., 1962, GEOLOGY OF THE SPARTA QUADRANGLE; ODGMI GEOL. MAP WITH TEXT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1980 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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