Sugar Pine

Producer in Josephine county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Production statistics
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042762
MRDS ID M060762
Record type Site
Current site name Sugar Pine
Related records 10273865

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.64033, 42.5601 (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 008W 03 SW OF NW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Amphibolite
    Rock unit name Briggs Creek Amphibolite
    Rock description Briggs Creek Amphibolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.64033, 42.5601

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS, LENS
    Strike NORTH
    Dip WEST
    Width 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1923-1935

Mining district

District name Galice

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Production statistics

  • Year 1935
    Period 1860-1935
    Material AU
    Description Cp_Grade: ^0.83 Au, 0.09 Ag
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Silver Silver 3g/mt
    Major Gold Gold 23g/mt

Comments on the production information

  • ONLY PART OF PRODUCTION KNOWN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Length 914.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • ADITS, WKGS 3000+ ONLY PART OF PRODUCTION KNOWN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 61, P.212

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1942, ODGMI BULL. 14-C, VOL. 2, SEC. 1, P.60

  • Deposit

    WINCHELL, A.N., 1914, PETROLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF JOSEPHINE AND JACKSON COUNTIES, OREGON; OREGON BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. VOL. 1, NO.4, P.207

  • Production

    USBM

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VERY OLD MINE - IS VEIN A "DIKE INTRUSIVE"?
Deposit RECORD NUMBER (M013302) 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-APR-1981 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