The Silver's is a chromium mine located in Grant county, Oregon.
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Mine Info
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Silver's MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Silver's
Secondary: Silver Lease
Commodity
Primary: Chromium
Location
State: Oregon
County: Grant
District: Mt Vernon District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Podiform
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Columbia Plateau
Physiographic Section: Walla Walla Plateau
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: BANDS AND IRREGULAR BODIES OF CHROMITE
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Serpentinite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Permian
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: ORE APPEARS TO BE 30 % TO 45 % CHROMIC OXIDE.
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Reserve-Resource): DEPOSIT IS BY NO MEANS EXHAUSTED, SINCE ORE APPEARS PROMINENTLY FROM TOP TO BOTTOM IN WEST FACE OF GLORY HOLE.
Comment (Location): WEST EDGE OF SEC.
Comment (Production): 700 TONS OF ORE.
Comment (Deposit): RECORD ( M014871 ) HAS BEEN MERGED WITH THIS RECORD AND DELETED FROM THE OREGON FILE.
Comment (Workings): GLORY HOLE 30 - 40 FT. DEEP. 700 TONS OF ORE.
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: NORTH-TRENDING GABBROID DIKE LIES TO EAST OF DEPOSIT. THERE HAS BEEN CONSIDERABLE FAULTING & SLICKENSIDING, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE MINING TOO DIFFICULT.
References
Reference (Deposit): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941 , ODGMI BULL 14-B, P. 36 - 37
Reference (Reserve-Resource): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941 , ODGMI BULL 14-B, P. 66
Reference (Deposit): THAYER, T. P., 1940 , CHROMITE DEPOSITS OF GRANT COUNTY, ORE.: USGS BULL. 922-D, P. 110 .
Reference (Deposit): ALLEN, J. E., 1938 , CHROMITE DEPOSITS IN OREGON; ODGMI BULL. 9 , P. 66
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