Starr

Past Producer in Curry county in Oregon, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver
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. 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 10042814
MRDS ID M061007
Record type Site
Current site name Starr
Alternate or previous names McKinley
Related records 10152535

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -124.29979, 42.50175 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Curry(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Brushy Bald Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Port Orford(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cape Blanco(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

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Curry

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 036S 013W 31 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Copper Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Porous, Iron Stained Gossan

Analytical data

Result SOME SIMPLE ASSAYS - VARIABLE COPPER (3 - 8% CU) SOME HAVE 1.61 OZ AU & .27OZ AG PER TON - OTHERS - NO GOLD.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite
    Rock unit name Colebrooke Schist;Otter Point
    Rock description Colebrooke Schist;Otter Point
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -124.29979, 42.50175

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 3.66M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE SERPENTINE IS PART OF THE THRUST SHEET ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLEBROOKE SCHIST.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area
Area name Siskiyou National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RAMP, L. AND OTHERS, 1979, GEOLOGY, MINERAL RESOURCES AND ROCK MATERIAL OF CURRY COUNTY, OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 93, P.34

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 19408 ODGMI BULL. 14-C, VOL. 1, P.66

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit "BOULDER" DEPOSIT

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.