The Bear Claims is a mercury mine located in Wheeler county, Oregon.
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Mine Info
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Bear Claims MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Bear Claims
Secondary: Mercury Queen
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Oregon
County: Wheeler
District: Marks Creek
Land Status
Administrative Organization: Ochoco National Forest
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Dick Tooley, Ed Brewer, Shirley Quant
Home Office: Prineville
Years: 1965 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Columbia Plateau
Physiographic Section: Walla Walla Plateau
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Kaolinization, Limonitization
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Limonite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Location): LOCATED ON A LOW. TIMBERED RIDGE ABOUT ONE MILE NORTHEAST OF CORRAL FLAT
Comment (Workings): CAVED
Comment (Geology): PROSPECT IS LOCATED IN A FRACTURE ZONE SIMILAR TO THOSE IN THE OCHOCO CREEK AND JOHNSON CREEK DISTRICTS. THIN, DISCONTINOUS STRINGERS HAVE BEEN EXPOSED IN SEVERAL PLACES ALONG THE FAULT ZONE BUT NO ORE HAS YET BEEN FOUND
References
Reference (Deposit): BROOKS, H. C., 1963, QUICKSILVER IN OREGON: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, BULL. 55, 223 P.
Reference (Deposit): MERCURY IN OREGON, 1965, USBM IC 8252, TABLE 26, P. 325.
Reference (Deposit): FREDERICK, F., 1945, STATE OF OREGON MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOL. AND MIN. INDUSTRIES, SCALE 1:1,000,000
Reference (Deposit): GILLULY, J., REED, J.C., AND PARK, C.F., JR., 1933, SOME MINING DISTRICTS OF EASTERN OREGON: USGS BULL. 846-A, P. 121-123
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