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Number Nine Claims

Occurrence in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodities Copper, Iron
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  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041497
MRDS ID M056557
Record type Site
Current site name Number Nine Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.96782, 48.94984 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buckhorn Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Republic(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Okanogan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Kettle(hydrologic unit)

Upper Columbia(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Columbia(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 Okanogan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 040N 030E 24 NW4 Washington

Comments on the location information

  • RECORD ORIGINALLY PLACED CADASTRAL COORDINATES NEAR MAZAMA AND ALT/LONG SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN MONTANA. LOCATION IS ACTUALLY IN MYERS CREEK DISTRICT SOMEWHERE NEAR BUCKHORN. EXACT LOCATION WAS NOT DETERMINED DURING UPDATE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Tremolite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Syenite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.96782, 48.94984
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Myers Creek District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Magnetic Mining Co.
    Home office Colville, Wa.
    First year 1949

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUNTTING, M.T., 1956, INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS - PART II, METALLIC MINERALS: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 37, V. 1, P. 69

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IS IN CONTACT METAMORPHIC ZONE NEAR SYENITE
Deposit PART OF MAGNETIC PROPERTY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1975 Mccoy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey MADE SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES TO LOCATION INFORMATION
Updater 01-JAN-1983 Lawson, William A. (Evarts, Russell C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 12-JUN-1995 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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