Mine detail: Woodpecker Group

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

42.08344, -123.19086

Resource(M)

Primary:	Mercury
Ore:	Cinnabar, Scheelite
Discovery year:	1941

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Applegate Group
Host type:	Metavolcanic Rock
Alteration processes:	Locally The Rocks Are Crushed And More Or Less Altered To Soft Masses Of Clay, Limonite And Calicite. In Places The Rocks Are Weakly Silicified

References

MRDS	M055850
DEP	10040955
Reference	{Deposit:: BROOKS, H. C., 1963, QUICKSILVER IN OREGON: OREGON DEPT. OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES, BULL. 55, 223 P.}{Deposit:: MERCURY IN OREGON, 1965, USBM IC 8252, TABLE 26, P. 324.}{Deposit:: OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1943: ODGMI BULL. 14-C VOL. 2, SEC. 2 (JACKSON CO.), P. 193}
Reporter	Peterson, Jocelyn A., Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.), Gray, Jerry J.