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Windsor

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodity Gold
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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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036625
MRDS ID M025502
Record type Site
Current site name Windsor
Related records 10152292, 10152814

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.35185, 44.8843 (WGS84)
Elevation 1366
Relative position ONE MILE NORTHWEST OF SPARTA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sparta Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker 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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 008S 044E 9 SE OF NW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SHOWN AS THE UNION MINE ON THE SPARTA TOPOGRAPHIC MAP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Sparta Complex
    Rock description Sparta Complex
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.35185, 44.8843
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • SMALL QUARTZ VEINS AND STRINGERS IN ALBITE GRANITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875

Mining district

District name Sparta District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES NOT VERIFIED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1901, GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON; USGS ANN. REPT. NO. 22, P. 736

  • Deposit

    FOSTER, D.W., 1892, MINING MAP OF EASTERN OREGON

  • Deposit

    FERNS, M.L., 1981, ODGMI FILE NOTES

  • Production

    LINDREN, 1901

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WORKINGS BADLY CAVED. NO REAL INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON HISTORY OR DEVELOPMENT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV
Deposit Discovery Year: 1870'S

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

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