Commodities
PrimaryGold, Silver, Copper
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeS
Ore controlThe Ore Is In A Quartz Vein That Is 1-5 Feet Wide (Huntting, 1956, P. 147).
Materials
Ore mineralsChalcopyrite, Pyrite
GangueQuartz
Geology
Host rockDiorite,Gabbro · Red Shirt Gabbro
StructureThe Red Shirt Gabbro Is Part Of The Frazer Creek Complex. Rocks Were Strongly Sheared Along The Red Shirt Thrust And Have Undergone Retrograde Metamorphism And Alteration To Epidote And Chlorite (Gulick And Korosec, 1990).
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Identification
Deposit ID10056028
MRDS IDSP00278
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates48.34844, -120.00006
References
BETHUNE, G.A., 1891, MINES AND MINERALS OF WASHINGTON- ANNUAL REPORT OF G. A. BETHUNE, FIRST STATE GEOLOGIST: WASHINGTON STATE PRINTER, 122 P.BETHUNE, G.A., 1892, MINES AND MINERALS OF WASHINGTON- SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF G. A. BETHUNE, STATE GEOLOGIST: WASHINGTON STATE PRINTER, 183 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.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.HODGES, L.K., 1897, MINING IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER, 116 P. [FACSIMILE REPRINTED 1967 IN TWO VOLUMES, MINING IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL WASHINGTON, AND, MINING IN WESTERN WASHINGTON: SHOREY BOOK STORE, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.]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.