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Brooklyn Mine

Occurrence in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Arsenic
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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. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036529
MRDS ID M025393
Record type Site
Current site name Brooklyn Mine
Alternate or previous names Free Coinage
Related records 10249628

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.23161, 44.81707 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position ABOUT FIVE MILES NORTHWEST OF SUMPTER

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 008S 037E 6 NW OF NW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • BROOKLYN SHAFT IS ON THE FREE COINAGE CLAIM

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result DUMP SAMPLE ASSAYED 0.03 OZ/TON AU
Result 0.15 OZ/TON AG

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) -118.23161, 44.81707
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cracker Creek

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • 300 FT SHAFT AND 500 FT OF DRIFTS AND ADITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, 1901, GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON; USGS ANN. REPT. NO. 22, P. 667

  • 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 WITH TEXT GMS-19

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PARELLEL VEIIN TO THE NORTH POLE-COLUMBIA LODE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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