The Snow Creek Mine is a gold mine located in Baker county, Oregon.
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Snow Creek Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Snow Creek Mine
Secondary: Zelda Mining Co.
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: Oregon
County: Baker
District: Greenhorn
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
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: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrrhotite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Covellite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: ROCKS ARE CUT BY QUARTZ MONZONITE DIKES WITH WHICH MINERALIZED QUARTZ SEAMS 1-6 INCHES THICK ARE ASSOCIATED. MAIN VEIN IS MOSTLY BARREN QUARTZ.
Comment (Production): $52,000 (1905)
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPED BY NUMEROUS ADITS; INCLUDES 1600-FOOT CROSSCUT, A SHAFT 200 FT DEEP, AND 1300 FEET OF DRIFTS.$52,000 (1905)
Comment (Location): NW 1/4
References
Reference (Deposit): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI, BULL 14-A, P. 56
Reference (Deposit): BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI, BULL 61 , P. 118 .
Reference (Deposit): ALLEN, R.M., 1948, GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION OF THE MORNING MINE AND ADJACENT REGION, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON, ODGMI BULL. 39, P.41
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