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Relief Property

Occurrence in Linn county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Zinc
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036456
MRDS ID M025262
Record type Site
Current site name Relief Property
Alternate or previous names Aho Brothers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.30144, 44.58453 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Linn(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Quartzville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

North Santiam River(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salem(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Santiam(hydrologic unit)

Willamette(hydrologic accounting unit)

Willamette(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Willamette 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 Linn

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 011S 004E 26 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SOUTH AND ADJACENT TO LAWLER GROUND

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore

Analytical data

Result REPORTEDLY ASSAYED 0.60 OZ/TON AU
Result 1.00 OZ/TON AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Sardine
    Rock description Sardine
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEIN MATERIAL CONSISTS OF GOUGE SEAMS WITH IRON-STAINED AND SILICIFIED ANDESITE AND SOME DISSEMINATED SULFIDES, CHIEFLY SPHALERITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Quartzville

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Willamette National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • 140 FEET OF TUNNELS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1951, ODGMI BULL. 14-D, P. 104

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1981 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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