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California Mine

Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Arsenic, Lead, Zinc, Copper
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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. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109354
MRDS ID M014827
Record type Site
Current site name California Mine
Related records 10298202

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.27688, 44.86457 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Ireland(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bates(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Canyon 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)

Federal lands

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Grant

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 008S 036E 14 W Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Arsenic Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.27688, 44.86457
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: ORE CONTAINED IN NARROW STREAKS AND LENSES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1873

Mining district

District name Cable Cove

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • ABOUT $40,000 MOSTLY FROM SPORADIC OUTPUT BETWEEN 1873 AND 1910.

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT BY 6 ADITS OVER VERTICAL RANGE OF 800 FEET; LONGEST IS 1750 FT. ABOUT $40,000 MOSTLY FROM SPORADIC OUTPUT BETWEEN 1873 AND 1910.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINE HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI, BULL. 14 - A, P. 18 .

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON, ODGMI BULL. 61 , P. 69 .

Reporter information

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