Goat Mountain

Occurrence in King county in Washington, United States with commodities Molybdenum, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Arsenic
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008478
MRDS ID D000662
Record type Site
Current site name Goat Mountain

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.57843, 47.61175 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097
Relative position 1 MI SOUTH OF SUNDAY LAKE, Estimated By Trail Along Sunday Creek At Foot Of Goat Mountain. This Location Is Far Below Altitude Indicated Above, Which Lies Mostly Outside The Section Indicated For Prospect

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

King(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lake Philippa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Skykomish River(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wenatchee(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Snoqualmie(hydrologic unit)

Puget Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Puget Sound(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Alpine Lakes Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington King

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 025N 010E 31 N2 Washington

Comments on the location information

  • ON SUNDAY CREEK ON WEST SIDE OF GOAT MOUNTAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Molybdenum Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Analytical data

Result 17 SAMPLES YIELDED TR-0.16 OZ/TON AU (AVG. 0.08), 0.94-50.4 OZ/TON AG (AVG. 15.48), 0.5-47.88% ZN (AVG. 9.35), 0-11.82% PB (AVG. 7.08), 0-6.54% CU (AVG. 1.63). 6 SAMPLES YIELDED 0-3.24% MO (AVG. 0.81)

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Snoqualmie Batholith
    Rock description Snoqualmie Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.57843, 47.61175

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN
    Length 182.88M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Buena Vista District

Land status

Ownership category National Wilderness
Area name In Alpine Lakes Wilderness In Snoqualmie National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Robert Prufer, North Bend, And George Wagner, Seattle
    First year 1952

Comments on the workings information

  • 8 OPEN CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KING, R.U., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, UNPUB. DATA.

  • Deposit

    HUNTTING, M.T., 1956, INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS - PART II, METALLIC MINERALS: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 37, V. 1, P. 215.

  • Deposit

    GUALTIERI, J.L., THURBER, H.K., MILLER, M.S., MCMAHAN, A.B., AND FEDERSPIEL, F.F., 1975, MINERAL RESOURCES OF ADDITIONS TO THE ALPINE LAKES STUDY AREA, CHELAN, KING, AND KITTITAS COUNTIES, WASHINGTON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 75-3, P. 139.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 35-FT-WIDE SHEAR ZONE CONTAINS STRINGERS OF MINERALIZED QUARTZ A FEW INCHES WIDE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1974 King, Robert U. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1992 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.