Washington · Kittitas County
Occurrence

Elsnor

Kittitas County, Washington, United States
Mercury
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Commodities
PrimaryMercury
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Model179: Silica-carbonate Hg
Deposit sizeN
Orebody formSMALL SEAMS
Materials
Ore mineralsCinnabar
Geology
Host rockSlate · Ingalls Tectonic Complex
Tectonic settingCascade Volcanic Arc
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10040169
MRDS IDM054852
Alternate namesElsener
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates47.42204, -121.00028
References
U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1965, MERCURY IN WASHINGTON, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE UNITED STATES: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8252, P. 366.HUNTTING, M.T., 1956, INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS - PART II, METALLIC MINERALS: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 37, P. 264.NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. 1941, TABULATED SUMMARY OF SPECIAL GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE REPORTS OF WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN IDAHO: LAND DEPARTMENT, GEOLOGIC DIVISION, 19 P.FRIZZELL, V.A., JR., TABOR, R.W., BOOTH, D.B., ORT, K.M., AND WAITT, R.B., JR., 1984, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SNOQUALMIE PASS 1:100,000 QUADRANGLE, WASHINGTON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 84-693, SCALE 1:100,000.U. S. Geological Survey and U. S. Bureau of Mines, 1989, Mineral resources of the Alpine Lakes Study Area and additions, Chelan, King, and Kittitas counties, Washington: USGS Bulletin 1542, 317 p.