The Owl Group is a gold mine located in Grant county, Oregon.
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Mine Info
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Owl Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Owl Group
Secondary: Red Bird
Secondary: Virginia
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Oregon
County: Grant
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: 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: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Middle Triassic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: AVERAGE ORE RAN $15.00 TO THE TON IN FREE GOLD ( 1940 )
Analytical Data: GOLD IS SAID TO BE 700 FINE
Materials
Gangue: Hematite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPED BY ABOUT 1000 FEET OF WORK INCLUDING 2 SHAFTS. PROBABLY ABOUT $50,000
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: SEVERAL NARROW QUARTZ VEINS EXPOSED. ORE MINED FROM NEAR SURFACE POCKETS. ORE CONSISTS OF HIGHLY SHEARED AND ALTERED IRON-STAINED GRANITE
Comment (Location): ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREENHORN.
Comment (Production): PROBABLY ABOUT $50,000
Comment (Deposit): BULK OF PRODUCTION WAS FROM HIGH GRADE POCKETS IN THE OLDER GABBRO
References
Reference (Deposit): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941, ODGMI BULL. 14-B,P.86.
Reference (Deposit): BROOKS, H.C. AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON, ODGMI BULL. 61, P.115
Reference (Deposit): PERKINS, J.M., 1976, GEOLOGY OF THE GREENHORN QUAD. AND NW PORTION OF THE WHITNEY QUAD., UNIV. OREGON MS. THESIS, P.88.
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