California Claim

Occurrence in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041480
MRDS ID M056531
Record type Site
Current site name California Claim
Alternate or previous names Eagle
Related records 10277217

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.65785, 48.94901 (WGS84)
Elevation 500
Relative position 9.2 MILES NNW OF LOOMIS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nighthawk(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Oroville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Okanogan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Similkameen(hydrologic unit)

Upper Columbia(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management OR)

Bureau of Land Management OR BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Okanogan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 040N 025E 23 NW OF W OF SW OF SW OF NE Washington

Comments on the location information

  • PROBABLY SAME AS EAGLE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Similkameen Pluton
    Rock description Similkameen Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.65785, 48.94901

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VUGGY QUARTZ, ORE ROUGHLY BANDED
    Width 3.66M

Comments on the geologic information

  • NEAR CONTACT WITH MALIGNITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Nighthawk District

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Length 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • 150 FT ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WASH. DMG BULL. 37, PART II, P. 63.

  • Deposit

    WASH. DMG BULL 64, P. 80-81, PLATES 1-2

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE MINERALS OCCUR AS PATCHES IN QUARTZ AND EXHIBIT SOME DEGREE OF PARALLELISM.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1977 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1982 Lawson, William A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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