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King's Clay

Occurrence in Marion county in Oregon, United States with commodity Clay
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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. 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. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048671
MRDS ID MP00286
Record type Site
Current site name King's Clay
Alternate or previous names Locality No. 11, Sublimity Locality

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.73035, 44.86953 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 6 MI NORTHEAST OF STAYTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Marion(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stout Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

North Santiam River(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salem(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Molalla-Pudding(hydrologic unit)

Willamette(hydrologic accounting unit)

Willamette(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Marion

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 008S 001E 18 SW4 OF SE4 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION TAKEN FROM ODGMI'S MILOC FILE; ACCURACY OF LOCATION HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CLAY IS USUALLY CHALKY WHITE AND FINE GRAINED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Kaolinite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic

Analytical data

Result SEVERAL SAMPLES YIELDED FUSION AT CONE 27 TO CONE 33

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.73035, 44.86953
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form MASSIVE
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 243.84M
    Width 121.92M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lithology?

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE TUFF OVERLYING THE CLAY CONTAINS PUMICE FRAGMENTS. BASALT UNDERLIES THE CLAY

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Willamina Clay Products Co.
    First year 1937

Comments on the workings information

  • A FEW TRUCKLOADS WERE REMOVED FOR EXPERIMENTATION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    WILSON AND TREASHER, 1938

  • Deposit

    WILSON, HEWITT, AND TREASHER, R.C., 1938, PRELIMINARY REPORT OF SOME OF THE REFRACTORY CLAYS OF WESTERN OREGON: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN 5, P. 49-54

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DESCRIPTION OF CLAY SUGGESTS IT IS A HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION PRODUCT OF A PUMICEOUS TUFF. "BROWN VEINS" DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE DEVELOPED, AS IRON OXIDE MATERIAL IS CITED AS HAVING PERCOLATED DOWN FROM OVERLYING TUFF BASED ON GREATER ABUNDANCE NEAR UPPER CONTACT OF CLAY WITH TUFF. A MODEL HAS NOT YET BEEN PUBLISHED FOR THIS TYPE OF DEPOSIT. DIMENSIONS GIVEN WERE PRESUMED BASED UPON DRILL HOLE DATA AND WERE USED TO CALCULATE POSSIBLE RESOURCES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1994 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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