Buffalo Property

Occurrence in British Columbia, Canada with commodities Copper, Platinum, Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10038707
MRDS ID M046128
Record type Site
Current site name Buffalo Property
Alternate or previous names Franklin Mining Camp

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.35948, 49.56652 (WGS84)
Relative position ON EAST BRANCH OF NORTH FORK OF KETTLE RIVER, 1.5 MILE NW FRANKLIN MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Penticton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Geographic areas

Country State
Canada British Columbia

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Platinum Critical Tertiary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Analytical data

Result ASSAY = PT = .14 OZ/TON, CU = 2.2%, AU = TRACE

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.35948, 49.56652

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Porphry Dikes

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Grand Forks Mining Division

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    O'NEILL AND GUNNING, 1934, PT DEPOSITS OF CANADA: CANADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ECON. GEOL. REPT. 13, P. 105

  • Deposit

    DRYSDALE, 1915, FRANKLIN MINING CAMP, B. C. : CANADA. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MEM. 56, P. 154, 155, 173

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1975 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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