Mount Reuben

Past Producer in Josephine county in Oregon, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10225620
MRDS ID M060690
MAS/MILS ID 0410330021
Record type Site
Current site name Mount Reuben
Alternate or previous names North Star, Gary Johnson Group
Related records 10042739

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -123.59506, 42.72202 (WGS84)
Elevation 1180
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Josephine(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Reuben(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Canyonville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Medford(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Rogue(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 033 S 008 W 12 NENW Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Unknown
Chalcopyrite Unknown
Gold Unknown
Limonite Unknown
Pyrite Unknown
Quartz Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -123.59506, 42.72202

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N22E
    Dip 70E
    Thickness 0.5M
    Length 170M
    Width 2M
    Depth to top 1M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 SHEAR ZONE
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 FISSURE VEIN
    Shape of Orebody #2 LENTICULAR
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Secondary mode of Origin OXIDATION
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Secondary Ore Control CONTACT ZONE
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. MODERATE
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 PYRITIZATION
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #2 ADV ARGILLIC
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #3 BLEACHING
    Strike And Dip N22E:70E
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 1
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 821126
  • Area 16HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 16
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1915
Year of first production 1938

Mining district

District name Galice

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Clem Flickenger And Ed Romig... Galice,Oreg.
    Interest 100
    Home office Oregon
    Year 1976

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 34, 1947, P. 23.

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 100, 1979,

  • Deposit

    PLATE 2, NO. 5.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THERE ARE NO MEASURED,INFERRED,ORINDICATED RESERVES AT THE M EN MINE. THE DOWN-DIP EXTENT OF MINERALIZATION IS NOT KNOWN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-AUG-92 Hull, D.A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.