Mine detail: Copper Mtn. Group

Previously called 'Including Sherbandy Group'

<< Back to the map

Location

Lat / long:

44.55568, -118.69328

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Cobalt, Gold
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Cobaltite, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite
Gangue:	Beidellite, Quartz, Sericite, Tourmaline

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Andesite
Associated type:	Diorite
Alteration processes:	Tourmaline - Quartz - Chalcopyrite Replacement Bodies In Greenstone

References

MRDS	M014983
DEP	10033078
Reference	{Deposit:: OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941 , ODGMI, BULL 14 - B, P. 112 .}{Deposit:: GILLULY, J., REED, J. C., AND PARKS, C. F. JR, 1933 , SOME MINING DISTRICTS OF EASTERN OREGON: U.S.G.S. BULL. 846 - A, P. 99 .}{Deposit:: JOHNSON, F.R., 1975, GEOLOGY OF THE QUARTZBURG MINING DISTRICT, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON, OREGON STATE UNIV. MS. THESIS, P. 83}
Reporter	Lee, W., Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.), Gray, Jerry J.