Description
Valorie Haskins, Paul Seidel
Commodities
PrimaryMercury
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
Ore controlSmall Shear Zones Of Various Attitudes And Ranging From A Few Inches To Several Ft Wide
Materials
Ore mineralsCinnabar, Scheelite
Geology
Host rockMetavolcanic Rock · Applegate Group
AlterationLocally The Rocks Are Crushed And More Or Less Altered To Soft Masses Of Clay, Limonite And Calicite. In Places The Rocks Are Weakly Silicified
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Discovery year1941
Identification
Deposit ID10040955
MRDS IDM055850
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates42.08344, -123.19086
References
BROOKS, H. C., 1963, QUICKSILVER IN OREGON: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, BULL. 55, 223 P.MERCURY IN OREGON, 1965, USBM IC 8252, TABLE 26, P. 324.OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1943: ODGMI BULL. 14-C VOL. 2, SEC. 2 (JACKSON CO.), P. 193