Jumbo

Occurrence in Lake county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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. 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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095292
MRDS ID M025064
Record type Site
Current site name Jumbo
Alternate or previous names Elephant
Related records 10250403

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.98023, 42.52791 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lake(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rabbit Hills SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bluejoint Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Adel(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Warner Lakes(hydrologic unit)

Oregon Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon Closed Basins(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 Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 035S 023E 23 N Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • N 1/2 SEC 23

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Gangue
Hyalite Gangue
Opal Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.98023, 42.52791

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • PRIMARY SULPHIDES ARE OCCASIONALLY FOUND AS SPARSE DISSEMINATIONS OR AS FINE STRINGERS IN A LIGHT COLORED RHYOLITE. SECONDARY ENRICHMENT HAS PRODUCED LOCAL HIGH-GRADE POCKETS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1912
Discoverer John Loftus

Mining district

District name Lost Cabin (Windy Hollow)

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT AND 175 FT TUNNEL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON, ODGMI BULL. 61, P. 161

  • Deposit

    ALLEN, J.E, 1939, JUMBO MINE, ODGMI UNPUBLISHED FILE REPORT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LITTLE INFORMATION AVAILABLE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
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.