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Sullivan

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. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10056039
MRDS ID SP00294
Record type Site
Current site name Sullivan
Alternate or previous names Pateros
Related records 10131581

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.98867, 48.08039 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pateros(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Omak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Okanogan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Methow(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 030N 023E 20 SW2 Washington

Comments on the location information

  • 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PATEROS, ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE METHOW RIVER.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Methow Gneiss
    Rock description Methow Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.98867, 48.08039
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description The Methow Gneiss Is A Post-Tectonic Body That Was Originally Intruded At Moderate To Deep Levels And Then Metamorphosed To Amphibolite-Facies Grade Rock (Gulick And Korosec, 1990, P. 38).

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The Deposit Consists Of Shear Zones As Much As 6 Feet Wide But Averaging Less Than 3 Feet. The Shear Zones Are In Granite Along The Margins Of "Andesite" Dikes. The Shear Zones Also Contain Small, Scattered Pods Of Shipping-Grade Ore (Huntting, 1956, P. 149). The Andesite Dikes Noted In Huntting (1956) Are Probably Dacite Dikes (Gulick And Korosec, 1990, Geol. Map).

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE METHOW GNEISS OF CRETACEOUS AGE IS SHEARED AND INTRUDED BY HYPABYSSAL DIKES OF PROBABLE EOCENE AGE NEAR THE DEPOSIT (GULICK AND KORSEC, 1990, GEOL. MAP).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1941

Comments on the production information

  • REPORTEDLY, 60 CARLOADS OF ORE WERE PRODUCED PRIOR TO 1897; THE TOTAL WAS VALUED AT $72,000. SEVEN TONS OF ORE THAT WERE SHIPPED IN 1940 ASSAYED 0.63 OZ/TON AU, 0.80 OZ/TON AG, AND 0.17% CU. ORE WAS ALSO SHIPPED IN 1941 (HUNTTING, 1956, P. 149).

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

    GULICK, C.W.; KOROSEC, M.A., COMPILERS, 1990, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE OMAK 1:100,000 QUADRANGLE, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN-FILE REPORT 90-12, 52 P., 1 PL.

  • 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.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE DEPOSIT MAY BE PART OF THE FRIDAY MINE. THE SULLIVAN MINE WAS DEVELOPED BY 1200 FEET OF WORKINGS ON THREE LEVELS (HUNTTING, 1956). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1991 Berger, Mary A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1994 Frank, Dave U.S. Geological Survey

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