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Crystal Palace

Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109343
MRDS ID M014494
Record type Site
Current site name Crystal Palace
Related records 10127407, 10224558

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.36991, 44.85486 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sparta(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Powder(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 008S 044E 19 E Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • E 1/2, 2 1/2 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF SPARTA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Ankerite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Granite and diorite
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 35 W - N 60 E
    Dip SHALLOW
    Width 2.13M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: VEIN IN LOWER TUNNEL HAS PECULIAR S-SHAPED CURVE; CURVE MAY BE DUE EITHER TO POST-MINERAL OR PRE-MINERAL MOVEMENT EXPOSURES ARE INSUFFICIENT FOR CLEAR DECISION. VEIN QUARTZ IS MORE OR LESS CRUSHED, SHOWING CLEARLY THAT THERE HAS BEEN POST-MINERAL MOVEMENT, BUT AMOUNT IS DIFFICULT TO JUDGE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Sparta

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY 2 ADITS 80 FEET APART VERTICALLY AGGREGATE 2000 FEET.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 61 , P. 101

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - A, P. 47 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THICKNESS AVERAGES 1 FT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Lee, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1978 Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

Beyond USGS

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