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Mineral Creek Mine

Past Producer in Lewis county in Washington, United States with commodities Arsenic, Zinc, Silver, Lead
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047870
MRDS ID M700208
Record type Site
Current site name Mineral Creek Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.10592, 46.66453 (WGS84)
Elevation 610
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 5 MI SOUTHEAST OF MINERAL, Estimated In Southwest Corner Of Section On Mineral Creek

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lewis(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Anderson Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Centralia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hoquiam(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Nisqually(hydrologic unit)

Puget Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Puget Sound(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Lewis

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 014N 006E 30 SW4 Washington

Comments on the location information

  • ON MINERAL CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Arsenic Critical Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Realgar Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE SAID TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN ACROSS A 300 FT FACE ASSAYED 3.80% ZN, 3.60% PB, 2.56 OZ AG

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 Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.10592, 46.66453
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form UNKNOWN

Comments on the geologic information

  • NO GEOLOGIC INFORMATION IN REFERENCE; RECENT MAPPING INDICATES ANDESITIC FLOWS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Leased By John M. Allen, Tacoma, Wash.
    First year 1949
  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of Washington
    Home office Washington

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL PRODUCTION ALSO IN 1904-1905

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. 363.

  • Deposit

    SCHASSE, H.W., 1987, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE CENTRALIA QUADRANGLE, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN-FILE REPORT 87-11, SCALE 1:100,000.

  • Production

    HUNTTING, 1956

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LEASE LOTS 2 AND 4 ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit NO DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN REFERENCE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-82 Caress, Mary E. (Evarts, Russ) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-92 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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