Commodities
PrimaryGold, Silver, Lead, Copper
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeVein
Deposit sizeS
Ore controlThe Vein, Which Averages 6 Feet In Thickness, Strikes N10w And Dips 70-80e. The Vein Is In Biotite Gneiss And Is Parallel To The Contact With A Granodiorite Gneiss That Is Several Hundred Feet To The West. The Ore Minerals Seem To Be In A 2-Ft-Thick Band That Parallels The Hanging Wall. Parts Of The Vein Are Sheared; Shears Parallel The Vein (Moen, 1973, P. 13-14).
Materials
Ore mineralsArgentite, Cerargyrite, Galena, Silver, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite
GangueQuartz
Geology
Host rockGneiss
StructureThe Salmon Creek Schist And Gneiss Is Laterally Equivalent To The Metamorphic Complex Of Conconully (Gulick And Korosec, 1990), Which Is Thought By Rinehart And Fox (1976) To Grade Into And Include Late Triassic Rocks. Late Triassic Sedimentary Rocks Were Deposited In An Active Continental Margin Setting Associated With An Island Arc.
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Identification
Deposit ID10055984
MRDS IDSP00215
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates48.47677, -119.72867
References
GULICK, C.W.; KOROSEC, M.A., COMPILERS, 1990, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE OMAK 1:100,000 QUADRANGLE, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN-FILE REPORT 90-12, 52 P., 1 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, 67 P.JONES, E.L., JR., 1917, RECONAISSANCE OF THE CONCONULLY AND RUBY MINING DISTRICTS, WASHINGTIN. IN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY (SHORT PAPERS AND PRELIMINARY REPORTS), 1916-PART I, METALS AND NONMETALS EXCEPT FUELS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 640, P. 11-36.MOEN, W.S., 1973, CONCONULLY MINING DISTRICT OF OKANOGAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY INFORMATION CIRCULAR 49, 42 P.RINEHART, C.D.; FOX, K.F., JR., 1976, BEDROCK GEOLOGY OF THE CONCONULLY QUADRANGLE, OKANOGAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1402, 58 P., 1 PL.SCHUSTER, J.E., 1973, DIRECTORY OF WASHINGTON MINING OPERATIONS, 1971-72: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY INFORMATION CIRCULAR 48, 97 P.DERKEY, R.E.; JOSEPH, N.L.; LASMANIS, R., 1990, METAL MINES OF WASHINGTON-PRELIMINARY REPORT: STATE OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN-FILE REPORT 90-18, 577 P.