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Equity Group

Past Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102958
MRDS ID M014990
Record type Site
Current site name Equity Group
Alternate or previous names Quartzburg Mining Co., Colorado Group
Related records 10225778

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.70689, 44.55068 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dixie Meadows(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper John Day(hydrologic unit)

John Day(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 012S 033E 02 S Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • ON THE WEST FORK OF DIXIE CREEK, A FEW HUNDRED FEET NORTHWEST OF THE KEYSTONE. SIX PATENTED CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Dolomite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Analytical data

Result SOME OF ORE CONTAINED AS MUCH AS $500 IN GOLD PER TON ( 1933)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.70689, 44.55068
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 35 - 45 E
    Dip 75 - 80 SE
    Width 0.3M

Comments on the geologic information

  • SHEARED GABBRO CARRYING LABRODORITE PHENOCRYSTS. ; GEOL.DESC: VEIN IS CROSSED BY NUMEROUS SHATTERED ZONES OF GOUGE & FAULT BRECCIA FROM 3 INCHES TO 3 FEET WIDE. MOST OF THE MOVEMENT APPEARS TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE BEFORE MINERALIZATION; SOME POST MINERAL HAS OCCURED, AS VEIN IS OFFSET 3 FT. AND POSSIBLY 17 FT. IN ONE PLACE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Quartzburg

Comments on the production information

  • ESTIMATED AT $400,000 TO $600,000.

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 ADIT LEVELS. ESTIMATED AT $400,000 TO $600,000.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941, ODGMI BULL. 14-B,P. 124

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 61 , P. 152 .

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, F.R., 1975, GEOLOGY OF THE QUARTZBURG MINING DISTRICT, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON; OREGON STATE UNIV. MS. THESIS, P. 82

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit USGS RECORD (W016694) AND CONSV. RECORD (M014987) HAVE BEEN MERGED INTO THIS RECORD, AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1980 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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