The Cooney is a mine located in Harney county, Oregon at an elevation of 6,004 feet.
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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
Elevation: 6,004 Feet (1,830 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 42.1167, -118.62920
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Cooney MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cooney
Secondary: Wonder Rock
Secondary: Pueblo Group
Secondary: Canfield Tunnel
Secondary: Pueblo
Secondary: Denfield Mine
Secondary: Farnham
Commodity
Tertiary: Mercury
Tertiary: Gold
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: Oregon
County: Harney
District: Pueblo
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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.
Holdings
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: M. A. Jenson And Bruce Roeding
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1956
Owner Name: Tom Lawson
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Oregon
Info Year: 1976
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1919
Discovery Year: 1916
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Covellite
Unknown: Pyrite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Azurite
Unknown: Bornite
Unknown: Chalcedony
Unknown: Chalcocite
Unknown: Chalcopyrite
Unknown: Chrysocolla
Unknown: Cinnabar
Unknown: Gold
Unknown: Hematite
Unknown: Limonite
Unknown: Tenorite
Unknown: Tetrahedrite
Unknown: Malachite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THE TETRAHEDRITE ON RECORD 071 IS THE MERCURIAN VARIETY, SCHWAZITE. THE DETAILS OF LOCATION ON RECORD 030 ARE TAKEN FROM THE 1:250,000 SCALE MAP. THERE ARE NO RESERVES IN ANY CATAGORY AT THE FARNHAM-PUEBLO PROPERTY. THE DOWN-DIP EXTENT OF THE SCATTERED MINERALIZATION CANNOT BE DETERMINED. EXAMINATION BY RAMBOSEK AND HOLDEN (1956) FOUND NO SURFACE RADIOACTIVITY OR POTENTIAL FOR URANIUM PRODUCTION.
References
Reference (Deposit): RECONNAISANCE REPORT R-91, U.S.G.S. LIBRARY, DENVER, COLO.
Reference (Deposit): RAMBOSEK & HOLDEN,1956, ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION PRELIM.
Reference (Deposit): NO. 26, P. 23.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 8-87, 1987, TABLE 1,
Reference (Deposit): OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 61, 1968, P. 161.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 8252, 1965, TABLE 26, P. 330.
Reference (Deposit): OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 55, 1963, P. 202.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 995-B, 1953, P. 19-77.
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