The Don Juan is a 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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Don Juan MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Don Juan
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Lead
Location
State: Oregon
County: Baker
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
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Greenstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Middle Triassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Dolomite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Talc
Comments
Comment (Production): NO MILLING RECORDS AVAILABLE
Comment (Workings): ADIT OF UNKNOWN LENGTH; INACCESSIBLE IN 1930 . PROPERTY IS ABANDONED.
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: VEIN MATERIAL CONSISTS OF GRANULAR DOLOMITE, A LITTLE QUARTZ AND GALENA.
References
Reference (Deposit): PERKINS, J.M., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE GREENHORN QUAD. AND THE NW PORTION OF THE WHITNEY QUAD., UNIV. OF OREGON MS. THESIS, P. 88.
Reference (Deposit): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941 , ODGMI, BULL. 14 - B, P. 75 .
Reference (Deposit): BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON, ODGMI, BULL 61 , P. 112 .
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