INFRASTRUCTURE OF TABLE MOUNTAIN, OREGON NEPHELINE PROSPECT

Table Mountain, Oregon is easily accessible by ground, water, and rail transportation.

Roads.
Roads are accessible year round and are well maintained using nepheline syenite gravel as road base.

Rail.
The paper mill in Toledo maintains constant access to the rail network. There is a railhead and sea-going barge loading facility at Toledo, only 15 miles away, which could be accessed via a private logging road. Portland & Western Railroad (P&W), a wholly owned subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc., operates a 520-mile regional system consisting of rail transportation service to the Portland metropolitan area, the Willamette Valley, coastal Toledo, and the deep-water Port of Astoria. The “Toledo Line” runs from Toledo to Albany, Oregon serving a large Georgia Pacific kraft paper mill.

Barge.
A barge port is also accessible at Toledo, approximately 10 miles up river from the seaport of Newport.

Sea Port.
The Port, based in Yaquina Bay, was constructed as a deep-water port to provide shipping services to local, regional and international vessels and to service one of the largest commercial fishing fleets on the Oregon coast. Currently, the Port is restricted in providing shipping services due to failing terminal infrastructure; however, redevelopment of the terminal is set to begin in 2007 and be completed in 2009.

Electricity.
Table Mountain hosts amicrowave repeater station. An electric line runs underground on the north side of the area.

Water.
There is a natural water spring located on the SW flank of the mountain at approximately 2280 ft a.s.l. at the following coordinates: Long. N44 27.968 / Lat. W123 50.821. The spring was roughly estimated to produce 15 gal/min in late October/early November.