Lakeside Spring

Occurrence in Baker 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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036542
MRDS ID M025406
Record type Site
Current site name Lakeside Spring
Alternate or previous names Ninestrike
Related records 10183163

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.18687, 44.83735 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012

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 28 E Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

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) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.18687, 44.83735

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 3.05M

Comments on the geologic information

  • LARGE SILICIFIED QUARTZ-ARGILLITE BRECCIA ZONE ROUGHLY PARALLELS THE NORTH POLE-COLUMBIA LODE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cracker Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Brooks Minerals Inc.
    First year 1981

Comments on the workings information

  • ABOUT 200 FT CAVED ADIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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 COMPOSITE QUARTZ VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-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.