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Mayflower Prospect

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Antimony
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033419
MRDS ID M015761
Record type Site
Current site name Mayflower Prospect
Alternate or previous names Gray Rock
Related records 10274091

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.22772, 44.80929 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bourne(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon 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 009S 037E 6 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.22772, 44.80929
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N75E
    Dip 75SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cracker Creek

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • NEWSPAPERS REPORT SMELTER SHIPMENT IN EARLY 1900'S

Comments on the workings information

  • OVER 500 FT OF WORKINGS IN TWO ADITS NEWSPAPERS REPORT SMELTER SHIPMENT IN EARLY 1900'S

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HEWITT, D.F.,1931, ZONAL RELATIONS OF THE LODES OF THE SUMPTER QUADRANGLE, AIME TRANS, V.5, P.321

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND OTHERS, 1981, MAP OF THE GEOLOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE BOURNE QUADRANGLE, BAKER AND GRANT COUNTIES, OREGON; ODGMI MAP GMS-19

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THREE SEPARATE COMPOSITE QUARTZ VEINS EXPLORED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1982 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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