The Gold Cluster 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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Gold Cluster MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Gold Cluster
Secondary: Knight Tunnel
Secondary: Sam Mc Gee
Secondary: Sheepherder
Secondary: Lone Pine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Oregon
County: Baker
District: Weatherby
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: 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: Payette Section
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Orebody
Form: NARROW STRINGERS
Structure
Type: L
Description: Post-Mineral Movement
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Basalt
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Miocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 770 TO 825 FINE
Analytical Data: GOLD MOSTLY FREE
Materials
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Production): $8000 IN 1928 - 1938 ; EARLY PRODUCTION NOT RECORDED.
Comment (Location): NE 1/4, EAST OF QUARTZ GULCH; 12 UNPATENTED LODE CLAIMS
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPED BY 600 FEET OF TUNNELING AND SHALLOW SHAFTS. $8000 IN 1928 - 1938 ; EARLY PRODUCTION NOT RECORDED.
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: DISCONTINUOUS QUARTZ STRINGERS IN A SHEAR ZONE IN GRANODIORITE.
References
Reference (Deposit): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - A, P. 68 .
Reference (Deposit): BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968 , GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 61 , P. 135 .
Oregon Gold
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