Giant - Flying Squirrel Mine

Occurrence in Pend Oreille county in Washington, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Silver
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036835
MRDS ID M025790
Record type Site
Current site name Giant - Flying Squirrel Mine
Alternate or previous names Giant
Related records 10204936

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.35443, 48.95486 (WGS84)
Elevation 914
Location accuracy 50(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pend Oreille(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Boundary Dam(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Colville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sandpoint(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Colville National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Pend Oreille

Comments on the location information

  • 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1967 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Secondary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Smithsonite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.35443, 48.95486

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-85 Andrews, David H. (Lawson, William A.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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