Lucky Strike

Past Producer in Josephine county in Oregon, United States with commodities Chromium, Palladium, Platinum, Rhodium, Iridium, Ruthenium
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  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. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Production statistics
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098534
MRDS ID M061659
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Strike
Related records 10176906

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.68143, 42.17343 (WGS84)
Elevation 500
Relative position 2 MI WEST OF CAVE JUNCTION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Josephine(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cave Junction(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grants Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Illinois(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 Josephine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 039S 008W 18 SE4 OF NE4 OF SE4 Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • UTM LOCATION GIVEN IS FOR PGE SAMPLE SITE LOCATION. LAT/LONG GIVEN ARE FOR ADIT SYMBOL SHOWN ON TOPO MAP; UTM FOR THIS IS 4669080N, 443860E.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary
Palladium Critical Tertiary
Platinum Critical Tertiary
Rhodium Critical Tertiary
Iridium Critical Tertiary
Ruthenium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore
Olivine Gangue
Serpentine Gangue

Analytical data

Result 4 ASSAYS: DISSEMINATED, 21.20% CR2O3, 9.39% FE
Result MASSIVE WITH SERPENTINE, 42.60% CR2O3, 11.70% FE AND 43.08% CR2O3, 10.97% FE
Result PANNED CONCENTRATE, 51.30% CR2O3, 11.54% FE. 1 PGE ANALYSIS: PD=7 PPB
Result PT=81 PPB
Result IR=300 PPB
Result RU=700 PPB
Result RH=58 PPB. CR:FE=2.5 IN HAND SORTED MASSIVE ORE

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 15
USGS model code 8a
Deposit model name Podiform chromite (minor)
Mark3 model number none

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Harzburgite
    Rock unit name Pearsoll Peak Ophiolite
    Rock description Pearsoll Peak Ophiolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.68143, 42.17343

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form MASSIVE, DISSEMINATED
    Strike N15E
    Dip 45W
    Width 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Magmatic Segregation

Comments on the geologic information

  • ULTRAMAFICS ARE HIGHLY SHEARED AND SERPENTINIZED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Don King
    First year 1958
  • Type Owner
    Owner Jim Breeding, Murphy And Glenn Young
    First year 1961

Production statistics

  • Year 1955
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^44% Cr2o3
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Cr2O3 Ore Chromium Chromium 44wt-pct
  • Year 1958
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^44-48% Cr2o3 (Conc.)
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Cr2O3 Ore Chromium Chromium 46wt-pct

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 7.62M
    Overall length 91.44M
    Overall width 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • 40 FT INCLINED SHAFT AND OPEN CUT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RAMP, LEN, 1961, CHROMITE IN SOUTHWESTERN OREGON: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN 52, P. 157.

  • Deposit

    THAYER, T.P., 1974, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, UNPUB. DATA

  • Deposit

    PAGE, N.J, JOHNSON, M.G., HAFFTY, JOSEPH, AND RAMP, LEN, 1975, OCCURRENCE OF PLATINUM GROUP METALS IN ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS OF THE MEDFORD-COOS BAY 2 DEGREE QUADRANGLE, SOUTHWESTERN OREGON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-694, SCALE 1:250,000.

  • Deposit

    RAMP, LEN, AND PETERSON, N.V., 1979, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON: OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MIINERAL INDUSTRIES BULLETIN 100, TABLE 1.

  • Deposit

    CARLSON, C.A., AND OTHERS, 1985, ANALYSES FOR PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENTS IN SAMPLES FROM PODIFORM CHROMITE DEPOSITS, CALIFORNIA AND OREGON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-442, 14 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CHROMITE ZONE IS SINUOUS AND DISCONTINUOUS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1976 Johnson, Maureen G. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1981 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Updater 01-JUN-1989 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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