Humboldt Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033425
MRDS ID M015769
Record type Site
Current site name Humboldt Mine
Alternate or previous names Forty Nine Jimmy
Related records 10176774

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.48966, 44.71707 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Greenhorn(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 010S 035E 10 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Middle Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.48966, 44.71707

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Greenhorn

Comments on the workings information

  • A 60 FOOT SHAFT WITH ABOUT 340 FEET OF DRIFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HEWITT, D.F., 1931, ZONAL RELATIONS OF THE LODES OF THE SUMPTER QUADANGLE; AIME TRANS. V.5, P.324

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-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.

External references