Mine detail: Virtue Mine

Previously called 'RuckerUnionCollateralChicago'

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Location

Lat / long:

44.79264, -117.69797

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Tertiary:	Tungsten, Copper
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Scheelite
Gangue:	Calcite, Quartz, Sericite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1862

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1862

Geology

Host rock:	Elkhorn Ridge Argillite
Host type:	Diorite,Argillite
Associated rock:	Clover Creek Greenstone
Associated type:	Plutonic Rock
Structure:	Ne Trending Blue Mountains Uplift, Fractures And Shear Zones Cutting Diorite And Argillite
Tectonic:	Geosyncline
Alteration processes:	Cataclastic Metamorphism

References

MRDS	W002484
DEP	10105517
Reference	{Deposit:: LINDGREN, W, 1901, THE GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS: USGS 22ND ANNUAL REPORT, PART 2, P. 551-776}{Deposit:: GILLULLY, J., REED, J. C., AND PARK, C. F., 1933, SOME MINING DISTRICTS OF EASTERN OREGON: USGS BULL. 846-A, P. 72-74}{Deposit:: GILLULLY, J., 1937, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE BAKER QUADRANGLE, OREGON: USGS BULL. 879, P. 94}{Deposit:: BROOKS, H. C., AND RAMP, L., 1968, GOLD AND SILVER IN OREGON: ORE. DEPT. GEOL. BULL. 61, P. 138-143}{Deposit:: 1901 RECON W. LINDGREN: REF. 1}{Deposit:: 1929 GEOLMAP J. GILLULLY: REF. 3}{Deposit:: 1929 RECON J. GILLULY ETAL: REF. 2}{Deposit:: 1968 COMPILE ORE. DEPT. GEOL. MIN. IND.: BULL. 61}
Reporter	Reeves, James R., Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.), Gray, Jerry J.