The Copper Butte Group is a copper and gold mine located in Baker county, Oregon.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
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Copper Butte Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Copper Butte Group
Secondary: Gilkeson
Secondary: Copper Queen
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Oregon
County: Baker
District: Eagle Creek
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
Owner Name: M. Cook Or Copper Co.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
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: Greenstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic
Name: Greenstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Copper
Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Cuprite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Epidote
Gangue: Actinolite
Gangue: Chlorite
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Workings): A FEW SHORT TUNNELS AND SHALLOW SHAFTS. ALSO, SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET OF DOZER TRENCHES.THIS PROPERTY ONCE HAD A SMALL FURNACE CONSTRUCTED ON IT; ABOUT 100 TONS OF 12 % COPPER WERE SHIPPED IN THE EARLY DAYS.
Comment (Geology): ORE MINERALS ARE CONCENTRATED ALONG FRACTURES AND DISSEMINATED IN THE UNBROKEN ROCK ; GEOL.DESC: UPPER PART OF FLOW IS HIGHLY AMYGDALOIDAL, WHILE LOWER PART IS DENSE IN CHARACTER.
Comment (Location): LOCATED ON UPPER CLOVER CREEK
Comment (Reserve-Resource): SURFACE CROSSCUTS AND CROSSCUTTING RAISES WOULD BEST DETERMINE HOW MUCH OF THE FLOW CONTAINS COPPER. THERE ARE NO MEASURED OR INDICATED RESERVES.
Comment (Deposit): THE MINERALIZED ZONE IS ABOUT 700 FEET LONG AND 100 FEET WIDE AT THE SURFACE.
Comment (Production): THIS PROPERTY ONCE HAD A SMALL FURNACE CONSTRUCTED ON IT; ABOUT 100 TONS OF 12 % COPPER WERE SHIPPED IN THE EARLY DAYS.
Comment (Deposit): RECORD NUMBER (M014360) MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE
References
Reference (Deposit): HULL, D. H., 1976, COPPER BUTTE MINE: ODGMI UNPUBLISHED REPORT.
Reference (Deposit): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - A, P. 46 .
Reference (Deposit): HAMMITT, R. W., 1972, THE GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF COPPER DEPOSITS NEAR KEATING, OREGON: UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, THESIS.
Reference (Deposit): 1975 REON ODGMI UNPUB. REPOR
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