Belcher

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055862
MRDS ID SP00061
Record type Site
Current site name Belcher
Alternate or previous names Blue Bell-Belcher

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.54724, 48.72374 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Ferry(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cooke Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Republic(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Okanogan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sanpoil(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 Ferry

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
037N 034E 8 NW4 Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Copper Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Tremolite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyodacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Nearby scientific data

(1) Permian rocks

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Two Or Three Irregular Replacement Bodies Are Present In Limestone In A Sequence Of Contact-Metamorphosed Limestone And Argillite Cut By Monzonite Dikes. Iron Sulphides Are More Abundant Than Magnetite (Huntting, 1956, P. 195).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Belcher

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: CONSIDERABLE PRODUCTION IN 1909-1911 AND 1913-1917 (HUNTTING, 1956, P. 195)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC ROCKS OF THE BELCHER MINE AREA ARE CONTACT-METAMORPHOSED LIMESTONE, DOLOMITIC LIMESTONE, ARGILLITE, AND GRAYWACKE. THE ORE BODIES LIE NEXT TO A NETWORK OF DIKES, SILLS, AND INTRUSIVE BODIES OF SCATTER CREEK RHYODACITE (MEUSSIG, 1967, P. 113). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1991 Berger, Mary A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1992 Frank, Dave U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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