Mine detail: Iron King Mine

Previously called 'Billie Girl'

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Location

Lat / long: 44.35315, -118.92386

Resource(M)

Primary: Chromium
Other material: Olivine, Picotite, Serpentine

Production

Operation type: Surface
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1916

Geology

References

MRDSM014927
MAS410230005
DEP10249977
Reference{Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 725-A, 1920, P. 49.}{Deposit:: OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 9, 1938, P. 55.}{Deposit:: OR. DEPT. GEOL. AND MIN. INDUST. BULLETIN 14-B, 1941,}{Deposit:: P. 27-28.}{Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 5238, 1956, P. 9, 15.}{Reserve-Resource:: ALLEN, J. E. CHROMITE DEPOSITS IN OREGON. OREGON STATE BULL.}{Reserve-Resource:: 9, 1941, P. 55.}{Reserve-Resource:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES WAR MINERALS REPORT 49, 1943, 30 PP.}{Reserve-Resource:: ANONYMOUS. JOHN DAY CHROMIUM DEPOSITS, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON.}
ReporterLowe, Nathan T.