Bunker Hill

Producer in Josephine county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Tellurium, Bismuth
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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Production statistics
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042760
MRDS ID M060756
Record type Site
Current site name Bunker Hill
Alternate or previous names Robertson, Progressive
Related records 10225525

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.72366, 42.55426 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Josephine(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Peavine(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canyonville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Rogue(hydrologic unit)

Southern Oregon Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon-Washington Coastal(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 Josephine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 035S 009W 02 SE Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Tellurium Critical Tertiary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Propylitization?

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone
    Rock unit name Rogue;Dothan
    Rock description Rogue;Dothan

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.72366, 42.55426

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS, BRANCHING VEINS
    Strike NW
    Dip SW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures Formed By East-West Shearing

Comments on the geologic information

  • MULTIPLE SMALL QUARTZ VEINS IN GREENSTONE AND DIORITE OCCUR NEAR A MAJOR THRUST FAULT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1924-1942

Mining district

District name Galice

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Production statistics

  • Year 1942
    Period 1924-1942
    Material ORE
    Description Cp_Grade: ^0.17-20 Au, 0.4+ Ag
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Ore Silver Silver 11g/mt
    Major Ore Gold Gold 5g/mt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Overall length 42.67M

Comments on the workings information

  • 520 FOOT CROSSCUT WITH 1200 FEET OF DRIFTS AND RAISES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RAMP, L. AND PETERSON, N.V., 1979, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 100, 45 P

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON, ODGMI BULL. 61, P. 206

  • Deposit

    SHENNON, P.J., 1933, GEOLOGY OF THE ROBERTSON, HUMDIGER AND ROBERT E. GOLD MINES, SOUTHWESTERN OREGON; USGS BULL. 830-B, P. 40

  • Production

    USBM

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RECORD NUMBER (M013310) HAS BEEN MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1979 Johnson, Maureen G. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1981 Smith, Roscoe M. And Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) 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.

External references