Lovitt

Chelan County, Washington, United States

GoldSilver

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Commodities

PrimaryGold, Silver

Commodity typeM

Deposit

Deposit sizeY

Ore controlMineralization Is Disseminated And In Stockworks In Pervasively Altered And Silicified Sandstone And Siltstone. Two Sets Of Fractures Control Vein Mineralization; Early Veins In Fractures Radial To Fold Hinges, And Veins In Faults That Cut The Earlier Radial Fault-Veins (Ott And Others, 1986, P. 425, 432).

Materials

Ore mineralsAcanthite, Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Hessite, Naumannite, Sphalerite, Stibnite

GangueCalcite, Chalcedony, Marcasite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite

Geology

Host rockMudstone,Siltstone,Sandstone,Conglomerate

Associated rockRhyodacite,Plutonic Rock

Tectonic settingThe Lovitt Mine Is In The Chiwakum Graben (Eocene), A North-Northwest- Trending Right-Lateral, Strike-Slip Graben Bounded By The Entiat Fault Zone On The East And The Leavenworth Fault Zone On The West (Ott And Others, 1986, P. 426).

AlterationHydrothermal Alteration, Particularly Silicification, Is Important In Ore Localization. Other Aleteration Minerals Include Sericite, Agillic Minerals, Potassium Silicates, And Chlorite.

Economic & production

Development statusPast Producer

Production years1894, 1910, 1938-39, 1944-46 (HUNTTING, 1956, P. 113). CONT. PROD 1949-1967.

Identification

Deposit ID10055844

MRDS IDSP00043

Alternate namesGolden King, Wenatchee, Squillchuck, Gold King, L-D;

RegionNA

Data scoreB

Coordinates47.38177, -120.31644

References

WDGER OFR 90-18.GRESENS, R.L., 1983, GEOLOGY OF THE WENATCHEE AND MONITOR QUADRANGLES, CHELAN AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES BULLETIN 75, 75 P., 3 PL.HUNTTING, M. T., 1956, INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS-PART II, METALLIC MINERALS: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 37, V. 1, 428 P.; V. 2, 67P.LOVITT, E.H.; SKERL, A.C., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE LOVITT GOLD MINE, WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON: MINING ENGINEERING, V. 10, NO. 9, P. 963-966.OTT, L.E., 1988, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE WENATCHEE MINING DISTRICT, CHELAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON: UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY THESIS, 270 P., 2 PL.OTT, L.E.; GROODY, DIANE; FOLLIS, E.L.; SIEMS, P/L/, 1986, STRATIGRAPHY, STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, ORE MINERALOGY, AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION AT THE CANNON MINE, CHELAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON, U.S.A. IN MCDONALD, A.J., EDITOR, GOLD '86-AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF GOLD DEPOSITS-PROCEEDINGS VOLUME; GOLD '86 [TORONTO, ONT.], P. 425-435.PATTON, T.C.; CHENEY, E.S., 1971, L-D GOLD MINE, WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON- NEW STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION AND ITS UTILIZATION IN FUTURE EXPLORATION: SOCIETY OF MINING ENGINEERS OF AIME TRANSACTIONS, V. 250, NO. 1, P. 6-11.