Mine detail: Le Gore Prospect

Previously called 'Red Cloud'

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Location: Wallowa County, Oregon, United States, North America
Lat / long: 45.31236, -117.33603
dep_id: 10032857
mrds_id: M014634
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper, Zinc, Tungsten
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Chalcopyrite, Garnet, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Scheelite
gangue: Calcite, Epidote, Quartz, Wollastonite
ore_ctrl: Contact Zone
Reporter: Lee, W., Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.), Gray, Jerry J.
hrock_unit: Hurwal Formation
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_unit: Wallowa Batholith
arock_type: Diorite
References:
  • Deposit:: OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1939 , ODGMI BULL. 14 - A, P. 118 .
  • Deposit:: LEMMON, D. M., AND TWETO, O. L., 1962 , TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR - 25 .
  • Deposit:: WOLFE, H. D., AND WHITE, D. J., 1951 , ODGMI, AMI SHORT PAPER NO. 22 .
  • Deposit:: SMITH, W. D., ET AL., 1941 , GEOLOGY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF THE NORTHERN WALLOWA MOUNTAINS, OREGON: ODGMI BULL 12 , P. 44 .
  • Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1282-E, 1979, TABLE 3, NO. 8, P. 72.
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