Seminole Claim

Occurrence in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033366
MRDS ID M015694
Record type Site
Current site name Seminole Claim
Related records 10249403

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.48019, 44.6593 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lawrence Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Burnt(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management OR)

Bureau of Land Management OR BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 010S 043E 30 S OF S Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Manganite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ONE SAMPLE RAN 34% MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert
    Rock unit name Elkhorn Ridge Argillite
    Rock description Elkhorn Ridge Argillite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.48019, 44.6593

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N50W
    Dip 80SW
    Width 1.83M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pleasant Valley

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LIBBEY, F.W. AND OTHERS, 1942, MANGANESE IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 17, P.52

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.