Buena Vista

The Buena Vista is a mercury mine located in Douglas 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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Site Name

Primary: Buena Vista
Secondary: Umpqua

Commodity

Primary: Mercury

Location

State: Oregon
County: Douglas
District: Tiller

Land Status

Land ownership: National Forest
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

Not available

Workings

Type: Unknown

Ownership

Owner Name: Steve Cooper And Bernard Young
Years: 1960 -

Production

Year: 1963
Time Period: To 1963
Material type: HG
Description: Cp_Grade: ^1 Lb/Ton

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1918
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Pacific Border Province
Physiographic Section: Klamath Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Host Rocks Are Partly Altered To Clay And Calcite And Impregnated With Calcite And Chalcedony Veinlets

Rocks

Name: Andesite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Eocene

Name: Andesite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Eocene

Name: Andesite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Eocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Chalcedony
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Calcite

Comments

Comment (Geology): ORE ZONE IS IN VOLCANIC ROCKS ADJACENT TO FAULT CONTACT WITH EARLIER TERT SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

Comment (Location): N CENTRAL PART SEC 34

Comment (Reserve-Resource): NO VISIBLE RESERVES

Comment (Workings): FLOODED AND CAVED

References

Reference (Deposit): OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1940: ODGMI BULL. 14-C VOL. 1-COOS, CURRY, AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES

Reference (Deposit): MERCURY IN OREGON, 1965, USBM IC 8252, TABLE 26, P. 319.

Reference (Deposit): RAMP, L., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON: ODGMI BULL. 75, P. 51.

Reference (Production): BROOKS

Reference (Deposit): BROOKS, H. C., 1963, QUICKSILVER IN OREGON: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, BULL. 55, 223 P.

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