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Call of the Wild

Occurrence in Jackson county in Oregon, United States with commodities Copper, Manganese, Gold, Silver
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  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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043313
MRDS ID M061984
Record type Site
Current site name Call of the Wild
Alternate or previous names Grand Cove
Related records 10184449

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.60446, 42.49344 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jackson(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lake Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper 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 Jackson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 035S 002E 29 SE OF SE Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4 SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Manganese Critical Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Cuprite Ore
Malachite Ore
Beidellite Gangue
Chalcedony Gangue
Opal Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES ASSAYED 1.2 -3.6 CU
Result TRACE AU, AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
    Rock unit name Little Butte Volcanics
    Rock description Little Butte Volcanics

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.60446, 42.49344
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Is Confined To Flow Breccias.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lakecreek

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • 30 FT SHAFT AND 60X10 OPEN CUT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1943, ODGMI BULL 14-C, VOL 2, SEC 2, P 141

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E AND BUDDINGTON, A F, 1938, METALLIFEROUS MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CASCADE RANGE IN OREGON; USGS BULL 893, P 132

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1978 Smith, Roscoe M. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-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

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

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