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Kimberly

Past Producer in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10056001
MRDS ID SP00239
Record type Site
Current site name Kimberly

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.53367, 48.88984 (WGS84)
Elevation 585

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bullfrog Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Oroville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Okanogan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Okanogan(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 026E 11 SW4 Washington

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOOMIS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.53367, 48.88984
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Marine Rocks Of The Specticle Formation Were Derived From Sediments Deposited Along An Active Continental Margin.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Is Present In En Echelon Lenses Of Quartz As Much As 50 Feet Long And 1-5 Feet Wide, In The Hanging Wall Over Contact (Possibly Fault) That Strikes N46w And Dips 52sw Between A Porphyrytic Granodiorite And Quartz Monzonite Pluton And Argillite And Slate (Umpleby, 1911, P. 97; Rinehart And Fox, 1972, Geol. Map).

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT OCCURS AT CONTACT OF THE PERMIAN SPECTACLE FORMATION AND THE JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS WHISKEY MOUNTAIN PLUTON (RINEHART AND FOX, 1972, GEOL. MAP).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Wanacut Lake

Comments on the production information

  • RINEHART AND FOX (1972, P. 93) REPORT THAT THE MINE HAS PRODUCED "CONSIDERABLE HAND-SORTED ORE OF $40.00 GRADE." PRESUMABLY THIS IS ORE WORTH $40.00 PER TON.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DERKEY, R.E.; JOSEPH, N.L.; LASMANIS, R., 1990, METAL MINES OF WASHINGTON-PRELIMINARY REPORT: STATE OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN-FILE REPORT 90-18, 577 P.

  • 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

    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

    UMPLEBY, J.B., 1911, PART I.-- GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MYERS CREEK MINING DISTRICT; PART II. -- GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE OROVILLE-NIGHTHAWK MINING DISTRICT: WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 5, 111 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEVELOPMENT AT THE SITE INCLUDED A 140-FT INCLINED SHAFT AND DRIFTS AT THE 60, 80-, AND 100-FT LEVELS (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-SEP-1993 Frank, Dave U.S. Geological Survey

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