The Copper Butte is a mine located in Baker county, Oregon at an elevation of 3,930 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: 3,930 Feet (1,198 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 44.9431, -117.52080
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Copper Butte MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Copper Butte
Secondary: Copper Butte Group
Secondary: Gilkeson
Secondary: Copper Queen Mine
Commodity
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Gold
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: Oregon
County: Baker
District: Eagle Creek District
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: Fee Ownership
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Oregon Copper Co. (Morris Cook)
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: 1872
Discovery Year: 1870
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Columbia Plateau
Physiographic Section: Payette Section
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Cuprite
Unknown: Bornite
Unknown: Calcite
Unknown: Chalcocite
Unknown: Malachite
Unknown: Pyrite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Chlorite
Unknown: Chrysocolla
Unknown: Copper
Unknown: Epidote
Unknown: Actinolite
Unknown: Azurite
Comments
Comment (Reserve-Resource): ON TONNAGE-GRADE MATRIX A FACTOR OF 12 CUBIC FT.PER TON WAS THE P3 TONNAGE ASSUMED TO EXTEND TO A DEPTH OF 20 FT. THE P2 TONNAGE ASSUMED TO EXTEND TO A DEPTH OF 40 FT. THE P1 TONNAG ASSUMED TO EXTEND TO A DEPTH OF 80 FT. LATERAL DIMENSIONS OF P1,P2,AND P3 TONNAGES ARE 700 FT.X 100 THE PROPERTY LIES IN THE SAWTOOTHRIDGE 7.5 MINUTE TOPOGRAPHI
References
Reference (Deposit): OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 14-A, 1939, P. 46.
Oregon Gold
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