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Mount Vernon Deposit

Producer in Grant county in Oregon, United States with commodity Asbestos
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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 10109355
MRDS ID M014865
Record type Site
Current site name Mount Vernon Deposit
Alternate or previous names Oregon Asbestos, Coast Asbestos Co.
Related records 10152387

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.05884, 44.44346 (WGS84)
Relative position 3 MILES NE OF MT. VERNON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grant(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Vernon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dayville(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 013S 030E 12 SW Oregon

Comments on the location information

  • ON BEECH CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Asbestos Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysotile Ore

Analytical data

Result SAID TO BE GOOD QUALITY
Result REPORTED TO AVERAGE 7 % FIBER

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.05884, 44.44346
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form CROSS FIBER AND SLIP FIBER

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SERPENTINE INTRUDES PERMIAN METAVOLCANICS AND SEDIMENTS AND IS PARTLY OBSCURED BY OVERLYING TERTIARY VOLCANICS AND PLEISTOCENE TO RECENT ALLUVIUM.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Production years ACTIVE IN 1962

Mining district

District name Mount Vernon

Comments on the production information

  • 525 SHORT TONS OF MARKETABLE FIBER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WAGNER, N. S., (OCTOBER) 1963 , COAST ASBESTOS CO. OPERATIONS GRANT COUNTY, OREGON: ODGMI, THE ORE BIN, VOL. 25 , NO. 10 , P. 171 .

  • Deposit

    BRIGHT, J. T., AND RAMP, L., (MARCH) 1965 , OREGON'S ASBESTOS POTENTIAL: ODGMI, THE ORE BIN, VOL. 27 , NO. 3 , P. 53 .

  • Deposit

    OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941, ODGMI BULL. 14-B, P. 39

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WELL DEFINED CROSS FIBER; CONSIDERABLE SLIP - FIBER.DETAILS OF SIZE NOT AVAILABLE.
Deposit RECORD (M014864) WAS MERGED WITH 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-MAY-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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