Eickemeyer Prospect

Occurrence in Crook county in Oregon, United States with commodity Mercury
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041074
MRDS ID M055995
Record type Site
Current site name Eickemeyer Prospect
Related records 10177232

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.43499, 44.11262 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mule Deer Ridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Prineville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bend(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Crooked(hydrologic unit)

Deschutes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Crook

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 017S 019E 10 SW OF NE Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SW/4 NE/4 SEC 10, LOCATION APPROX

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chalcedony Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermal Alteration

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.43499, 44.11262

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Maury Mountain District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Herbert Eickemeyer
    First year 1963

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., 1963, QUICKSILVER IN OREGON: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, BULL. 55, 223 P

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1976 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
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.