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Black Bear

Past Producer in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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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. 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 10055971
MRDS ID SP00197
Record type Site
Current site name Black Bear

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.62839, 48.83762 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Loomis(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Okanogan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 039N 025E 36 NE4 Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.62839, 48.83762
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The 4-Ft-Wide, N65w-Trending And 75ne-Dipping Quartz Vein Is In Banded Greenstone (Rinehart And Fox, 1972, P. 80).

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEINS ARE IN BANDED AND SCHISTOSE GREENSTONE OF THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC PALMER MOUNTAIN GREENSTONE; GREENSTONE WAS INTRUDED BY FELSIC TO INTERMEDIATE ROCKS OF PROBABLE JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS AGE (RINEHART AND FOX, 1972, GEOL. MAP).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Palmer Mtn, Alice Property Area

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCED $150,000 PRIOR TO 1902; PRODUCED 77 TONS IN 1947 (HUNTTING, 1956, P. 81).

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, 428 P.; V. 2, 67 P.

  • Deposit

    LANDES, HENRY; THYNG, W.S.; LYON, D.A.; ROBERT, MILNOR, 1902, ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1901, IN SIX PARTS; PART II-THE METALLIFEROUS RESOURCES OF WASHINGTON, EXCEPT IRON: WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 123 P.

  • Deposit

    RINEHART, C.D.; FOX, K.F., JR., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE LOOMIS QUADRANGLE, OKANOGAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 64, 124 P., 3 PL.

  • Deposit

    WDGER OF 90-18

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEVELOPED BY 2500 FEET OF WORKINGS AND A 300-FOOT SHAFT (RINEHART AND FOX, 1972). ; 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-JUN-1993 Frank, Dave U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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