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Powell Butte Uranium

Occurrence in Crook county in Oregon, United States with commodities Mercury, Uranium
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036288
MRDS ID M025047
Record type Site
Current site name Powell Butte Uranium

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.00251, 44.18205 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Powell Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bend(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bend(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Crooked(hydrologic unit)

Deschutes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Crook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 016S 014E 13 SW Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Uranium Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.00251, 44.18205
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Joint Surfaces

Comments on the geologic information

  • ANOMOLOUS URANIUM VALUES ARE REPORTED FROM NARROW SELVAGES ALONG JOINT AND FRACTURE SURFACES IN UNALTERED RHYOLITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1955
Discoverer E. A Groh

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CORCORAN, R.E., 1955, POWELL BUTTE URANIUM; ODGMI UNPUBLISHED FILE REPORT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DUPLICATE M029003 HAS BEEN DELETED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-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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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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