Mine detail: Quartz Mountain Gold Deposit

Previously called ''

<< Back to the map

Location

Lat / long:

42.32179, -120.79358

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Mercury
Secondary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Arsenic, Antimony, Lead, Copper
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Cinnabar, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Alunite, Barite, Chalcedony, Hematite, Jarosite, Kaolinite, Limonite, Opal, Quartz
Orebody form:	DISSEMINATED

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Medium
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite
Associated type:	Basalt
Structure:	N 50 W Trending Mcloughlin Fracture Zone
Tectonic:	Basin And Range
Alteration processes:	Kaolinitic, Argillic, Minor Silicification. Illite, Illite-Montmorillonite, Chlorite, Adularia, Pyrite, And Zeolites Have Developed Below The Water Table. Local Sericitic Alteration

References

MRDS	MP00149
DEP	10097319
Reference	{Analytical Data:: HOLLISTER AND JENNINGS, 1993}{Deposit:: HOLLISTER, V.F., AND JENNINGS, D.S., 1993, RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LOW-GRADE GOLD DISSEMINATIONS AND HIGH-GRADE VEINS IN THE QUARTZ MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, OREGON: NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES, V. 2, NO. 4, P. 284-291.}{Deposit:: SAWLAN, M.G., AND RUSSELL, D.K., 1991, RHYOLITE DOMES, NW-TRENDING FAULTS, GOLD DEPOSITS, AND HIGH-ALUMINA BASALTS IN THE DEVILS GARDEN-NW BASIN AND RANGE: RAPID VOLCANIC AND STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION FROM 8-6 MA AT QUARTZ MOUNTAIN, SOUTH-CENTRAL OREGON [ABS.]: GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ABSTRACTS WITH PROGRAMS, V. 23, NO. 2, P. 95.}
Reporter	Peterson, Jocelyn A.