Mine detail: Silver Peak

Previously called 'Oregon Exploration CompanySilver Butte MineUmpqua Consolidated Mining Co.'

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Location

Lat / long:

42.85592, -123.38176

Resource(B)

Tertiary:	Barium-Barite, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc
Other material:	Barite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Covellite, Epidote, Galena, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite, Quartz, Sericite, Sphalerite, Tennantite
Discovery year:	1910

Production

Operation type:	Underground
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1926

Geology

References

MRDS	M055186
MAS	410190002
DEP	10249847
Reference	{Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 2, 1933, P. 15.}{Deposit:: OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 14-C, 1940, V. 1,}{Deposit:: P. 110.}{Deposit:: OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 75, 1972, P. 29.}
Reporter	Hull, D.A.