Riddle Mine

Producer in Oregon, United States with commodity Nickel
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Links to other databases
  9. Bibliographic references
  10. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10085080
MRDS ID W700609
Record type Site
Current site name Riddle Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.54213, 43.94005 (WGS84)
Relative position No latitude-longitude reported. Given lat-lon is for centroid of second order political subdivision boundary.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Crook(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sugarloaf Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Brothers(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Crescent(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Crooked(hydrologic unit)

Deschutes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.54213, 43.94005

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on development

  • ORE PRODUCTION CAPACITY BETWEEN 1,000,000 AND 3,000,000 TONNES/YEAR.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 45

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-89 Beougher, Dee (Spanski, Gregory T.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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