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Mercury Prospect

Occurrence in Malheur county in Oregon, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036632
MRDS ID M025512
Record type Site
Current site name Mercury Prospect
Related records 10280947

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.2235, 43.98154 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position Lat/Long Modified 9/13/91 By Dave Frank, Spokane Mio Using Vale East 7.5' Topo

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Malheur(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Vale East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Vale(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Boise(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Malheur(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management OR)

Bureau of Land Management OR BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Malheur

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 018S 045E 28 NW Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 177
USGS model code 27a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.2235, 43.98154
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • PROSPECT IS IN A SILICIFIED FAULT ZONE CUT BY CALCITE VEINS. THE SANDSTONES ARE SILICIFIED OVER A LARGE AREA ADJACENT TO AN ACTIVE GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROWN, D.E., 1982, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE VALE EAST QUADRANGLE, MALHEUR COUNTY. OREGON: ODGMI OPEN-FILE MAP IN PREP

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FAULT ZONE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-82 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-AUG-93 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-MAY-95 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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