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Canyon Creek Cinnabar

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033436
MRDS ID M015783
Record type Site
Current site name Canyon Creek Cinnabar
Related records 10298564

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.89828, 44.23929 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Seneca(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

John Day(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Malheur 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 Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 015S 032E 29 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.89828, 44.23929
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N75E
    Dip 60NW
    Length 609.6M
    Width 13.72M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Intersecting Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • CINNABAR IS CONCENTRATED WHERE SMALL FRACTURES INTERSECT THE MAIN FAULT ZONE AT A HIGH ANGLE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Canyon

Land status

Ownership category Private
Area name Malheur Natioal Forest

Comments on the production information

  • REPORTEDLY PRODUCTION WAS FROM APPROXIMATELY 450 TONS OF ORE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 274.32M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SEVERAL CUTS, FOUR ADITS, AND ONE OPEN PIT. REPORTEDLY PRODUCTION WAS FROM APPROXIMATELY 450 TONS OF ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C., 1963, CANYON CREEK MERCURY PROSPECT; ODGMI FILE REPORT

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C., 1963, CANYON CREEK MERCURY PROSPECT, OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES FILE REPORT.

  • Production

    ODGMI FILES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-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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