The White Swan is a gold mine located in Baker county, Oregon.
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Mine Info
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White Swan MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: White Swan
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Oregon
County: Baker
District: Virtue
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Columbia Plateau
Physiographic Section: Payette Section
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Permian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Sericite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): RECORD NO. M014284 MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM OREGON FILE.
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPED BY 300-FOOT SHAFT WITH 4 LEVELS TOTALLING 2,000 FEET. $724,000 DURING 1890-1897, 1916, AND 1935-1937.
Comment (Production): $724,000 DURING 1890-1897, 1916, AND 1935-1937.
References
Reference (Deposit): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - A, P. 110 .
Reference (Deposit): BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 61 , P. 143 .
Oregon Gold
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