The Rabbit is a gold and silver mine located in Grant county, Oregon.
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Mine Info
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Rabbit MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Rabbit
Secondary: Dixon & Keyton
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Location
State: Oregon
County: Grant
District: Greenhorn
Land Status
Administrative Organization: Wallowa-Whitman 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
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Middle Triassic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 750 TO 760 FINE
Analytical Data: GOLD 90 % FREE
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Production): DISCOVERED IN 1925; SAID TO HAVE PRODUCED $40,000 PRIOR TO 1940 WITH FIVE-STAMP MILL.
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPED BY 1000 FEET OF TUNNELS AND A 160-FOOT SHAFT WITH SHORT DRIFT LEVELS. DISCOVERED IN 1925; SAID TO HAVE PRODUCED $40,000 PRIOR TO 1940 WITH FIVE-STAMP MILL.
Comment (Location): SE 1/4, TWO MILES NORTHEAST OF GREENHORN
Comment (Geology): WORKINGS ARE REPORTED TO BE IN THE OLDER GABBROIC COMPLEX. ; GEOL.DESC: VEIN LIES BETWEEN HANGING WALL OF DIORITE AND FOOTWALL OF GRANITE.
Comment (Deposit): LITTLE DATA AVAILABLE
References
Reference (Deposit): PERKINS, J.M., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE GREENHORN QUAD. AND NW PORTION OF THE WHITNEY QUAD., UNIV. OREGON MS. THESIS, P. 88.
Reference (Deposit): MULLEN, E.D., 1979, GEOLOGY OF THE GREENHORN MOUNTAINS, NORTHEASTERN OREGON, OREGON STATE UNIV. MS. THESIS
Reference (Deposit): BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI, BULL 61 , P. 116 .
Reference (Deposit): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI, BULL 14 - B, P. 89
Oregon Gold
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