Commodities
PrimaryGold, Silver
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeVein
Deposit sizeS
Ore controlThe Deposit Consists Of Quartz Veins In Graywacke And Shale. The Vein At The Collar Of The Shaft Is A 5-Ft-Wide Shear Zone And Consists Of Two Parts: One Is 1.5 Feet Wide And Is At The Footwall, And The Other Is 4 Inches Wide And Is On The Hanging Wall (Huntting, 1956, P. 148).
Materials
Ore mineralsBromyrite, Pyrite
GangueQuartz
Geology
Host rockSiltstone · Newby Group
StructureThe Newby Group Was Deposited Along An Active Continental Maragin In Or Near An Island Arc.
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10056035
MRDS IDSP00288
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates48.20427, -120.17117
References
BUNNING, B.B., COMPILER, 1990, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE EAST HALF OF THE TWISP 1:100,000 QUADRANGLE, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN-FILE REPORT 90-9, 51 P., 1 PL.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.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.PATTY, E.N., 1921, THE METAL MINES OF WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 23, 366 P.