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Greenback Mine

Past Producer in Josephine county in Oregon, United States with commodities Arsenic, Copper, Gold, Silver
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10298711
MRDS ID M061242
MAS/MILS ID 0410330177
Record type Site
Current site name Greenback Mine
Related records 10103899

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -123.30755, 42.65342 (WGS84)
Elevation 671
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Josephine(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Golden(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Josephine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 033 S 005 W 32 S2 Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Ultramafic and related rocks of ophiolite sequences
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 14-C, 1942,

  • Deposit

    VOL. 2, P. 104.

  • Deposit

    OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 61, 1968, P. 220.

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1290, 1971, P 84.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    PLATE 2, NO. 115.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 19-AUG-92 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

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