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Locality Name:
Lower Burnt River District, Baker Co., Oregon, USA


mindat Locality ID: 147178
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-147178.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Lower Burnt River District, Baker Co., Oregon, USA": 48
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 47

Number of Child Localities: 47
Child Localities:
Abestos Occurrence (Section 30 Asbestos)
Alder Creek Asbestos Occurrence
Anchora Leland No. 1 Claim
Anchora Leland No. 2 Claim
Big Lode Mine (Hannibal Mining And Milling Company)
Bonnie Claim
Cave Creek Placer
Chrome Occurrence (MRDS - 10036672)
Durkee Development Company Occurrence
Durkee Quarry
Durkee Zeolite Occurrence
Fuller And Ingerson Claims
Fur Mountain Copper Prospect
Gibbs Property
Gold Mine (MRDS - 10052412)
Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10032718)
Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10032756)
Gold Occurrence (MRDS - 10032783)
Gold Prospect (MRDS - 10032719)
Gold Prospect (MRDS - 10032751)
Gold Prospect (MRDS - 10095134)
Gold Ridge Placer
Golden Rod Occurrence
Jim Berri Manganese Prospect
Little Joe Group (Chicken Creek Tungsten Prospect)
Lower Burnt River Placers (Weatherby Placers)
Lower Marble Canyon Quarry
Manning Creek Occurrence
McCord's Gulch Claims
McCorkle & Shane Occurrence (McCorkle And Shane Prospects)
North Star Tunnel Site No. 2 Prospect
Oregon Portland Cement Company
Oregon Portland Cement Quarry (Oregon Portland Cement 1)
Patty D (Patsy D; Lloyd McCullough)
Pine Creek Placers
Placers Of Lower Burnt River (Includes Placers Near Weatherby; And The Mouth Of Dixie Creek)
Prescott Claims (Corander)
Section 24 Gold Occurrence
Sheep Mountain Group (Kent; Sheep Mountain Prospect)
Surprise Mine
Swayze Creek Occurrence
Table Rock Limestone Deposit
Twin Sister Claim
Unnamed Chromium Prospect (MRDS - 10183666)
Unnamed Gold Prospect (MRDS - 10152903)
Weatherby Mtn Gold Occurrence
Weatherby Placers

Latitude: 44°32'59"N
Longitude: 117°25'29"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 44.549722222222,-117.42472222222
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Ca Cr Cu Fe H Mg Mn O S Si W 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
ChalcopyriteClayNonePyriteQuartzRutileScheeliteSerpentineSpinel

8 IMA Minerals at location:
Chalcopyrite  (*)Chromite  (*)Chrysotile  (*)Manganite  (*)Pyrite  (*)
Pyrolusite  (*)Quartz  (*)Scheelite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS2125537527198
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O412553703902
Chrysotile  (*)Serpentine ClayMg3Si2O5(OH)41255363951
Manganite  (*)RutileMn3+O(OH)1255402770
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2125537539462
Pyrolusite  (*)RutileMnO212554023106
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2125540261156
Scheelite  (*)ScheeliteCa(WO4)12553684894


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