Mine detail: Le Gore Prospect

Previously called 'Red Cloud'

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Location

Lat / long: 45.31236, -117.33603

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper, Zinc, Tungsten
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Garnet, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Scheelite
Gangue: Calcite, Epidote, Quartz, Wollastonite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:Hurwal Formation
Host type:Limestone
Associated rock:Wallowa Batholith
Associated type:Diorite

References

MRDSM014634
DEP10032857
Reference{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.}
ReporterLee, W., Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.), Gray, Jerry J.