The King Tut Group is a silver and gold mine located in Grant county, Oregon.
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Mine Info
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King Tut Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: King Tut Group
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Antimony
Location
State: Oregon
County: Grant
District: Greenhorn
Land Status
Administrative Organization: Umatilla National Forest
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past 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: Blue Mountain 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: Early Triassic
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: ASSAY VALUES $47.25 IN GOLD AND $35.90 IN SILVER ( 1938
Materials
Ore: Tetrahedrite
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: ORE CONSISTING OF GLASSY SECOND GENERATION QUARTZ WHICH HAS FORMED AROUND FRAGMENTS AND CRYSTALS OF A FIRST GENERATION QUARTZ.
Comment (Workings): TWO SHORT TUNNELS TOTALING 250 FT.; FOUR SHAFTS, 10 TO 30 FT. DEEP, ALONG A DISTANCE OF 500 FT.NO PRODUCTION, EXCEPT 1400 TONS OF FLOAT WHICH NETTED $647 IN 1893 .
Comment (Deposit): CONSV. RECORD ( M015034 ) HAS BEEN MERGED WITH THIS RECORD, AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE
Comment (Location): E 1/2
Comment (Production): NO PRODUCTION, EXCEPT 1400 TONS OF FLOAT WHICH NETTED $647 IN 1893 .
References
Reference (Deposit): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941; ODGMI BULL. 14-B, P.80
Reference (Deposit): MULLEN, E.D., 1979, GEOLOGY OF THE GREENHORN MOUNTAINS; OREGON STATE MS THESIS
Reference (Production): OLD - TIMERS
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