Commodities
PrimaryManganese
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeS
Ore controlTwo Quartz Veins Are Present In The Decomposed Granite; One Is 2 Ffet Wide And The Other Is One Foot Wide. Manganese Minerals Occur In Stringers In The Quartz And As Disseminations In The Granite (Huntting, 1956, P. 261).
Materials
Ore mineralsPyrolusite, Rhodochrosite
GangueCalcite
Geology
Host rockQuartz Monzonite,Granite
StructureThe Quartz Monzonite Was Probably Emplaced In A Magmatic Arc.
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Identification
Deposit ID10099368
MRDS IDSP00271
Alternate namesThree Buttes
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates48.43927, -119.55922
References
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.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.PARDEE, J.T., 1922, DEPOSITS OF MANGANESE ORE IN MONTANA, UTAH, OREGON, AND WASHINGTON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 725-C, P. 141-243.PATTY, E.N.; GLOVER, S.L., 1921, THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF WASHINGTON, WITH STATISTICS FOR 1919: WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 21, 155 P., 1 PL.SHEDD, SOLON, 1924, THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF WASHINGTON WITH STATISTICS FOR 1922; WITH AN ARTICLE ON COAL AND COKE, BY G.W. EVANS: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY BULLETIN 30, 224 P.