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Buffalo Mine

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10069100
MRDS ID W002493
Record type Site
Current site name Buffalo Mine
Alternate or previous names Monitor, Constitution
Related records 10305387

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.40994, 44.86485 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 41 MILES N DEG E OF JOHN DAY, OREGON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Granite(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Umatilla National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

North Fork John Day Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 008S 035E 14 CENTER Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrargyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Selvage

Analytical data

Result ORE IS ABOUT 10 PERCENT SULFIDES

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Elkhorn Ridge Argillite;Bald Mountain Batholith
    Rock description Elkhorn Ridge Argillite;Bald Mountain Batholith

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.40994, 44.86485
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ne Trending Blue Mountains Uplift
Type of structure Local
Structure description E Trending Isoclinal Folds

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 20 DEG E
    Dip 70 DEG W
    Width 1.83M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Of Argillite And Granodiorite

Comments on the geologic information

  • DIKES, HIGHLY ALTERED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1880-1964

Mining district

District name Granite District

Land status

Ownership category Private
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner James Jackson
  • Type Owner
    Owner American Amex,Inc. /Vincent Coluccio, Seattle, Wa

Comments on the production information

  • ITEMS 8 AND 9 REPRESENT RECORDED PRODUCTION 1903-1965. PRODUCTION 1880-1903 IS UNKNOWN, BUT ESTIMATES BASED ON KNOWN GRADE AND STOPE VOLUMES ARE ABOUT DOUBLE RECORDED PRODUCTION. SEE ITEMS 10 AND 11.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 3048M
    Overall depth 198.12M

Comments on development

  • MILL REHABILITATED AND LOWER ADIT REOPENNED (1981)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KOCH, G.S., JR., 1959, LODE MINES OF THE CENTRAL PART OF THE GRANITE MINING DISTRICT, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON: ORE. DEPT. GEOL. MIN. INDUSTRIES BULL. 49, 49P.

  • Deposit

    OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, 1941, OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK; NORTHEASTERN OREGON-WEST HALF: BULL. 14-B, 157 P.

  • Deposit

    HEWETT, D. F., 1931, ZONAL RELATIONS OF THE LODES OF THE SUMPTER QUADRANGLE: A.I.M.E. TRANSACTIONS 5: 305-346.

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND OTHERS, 1982, MAP OF THE GEOLOGY ANA G3 82 01

  • Deposit

    1901 RECON LINDGREN

  • Deposit

    1914 RECON ORE, BU.MINES GEOL.: MIN RES. OF ORE. 1(8): 229 P.

  • Deposit

    1941 ORE. DEPT. GEOL. MIN. IND.: BULL. 14-B: 157 P.

  • Deposit

    1959 ORE. DEPT. GEOL. MIN. IND.: BULL. 49; 49 P.

  • Production

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP. L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON, P. 78

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONSV. RECORD M014806 HAS BEEN MERGED WITH THIS ONE, AND DELETED FROM OREGON FILE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Reeves, James R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1978 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

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