Pogue Flat

Past Producer in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10099368
MRDS ID SP00271
Record type Site
Current site name Pogue Flat
Alternate or previous names Three Buttes

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.55922, 48.43927 (WGS84)
Elevation 427

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Omak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Omak(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 034N 026E 15 NEAR SW CORNER Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore
Rhodochrosite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.55922, 48.43927

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description The Quartz Monzonite Was Probably Emplaced In A Magmatic Arc.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Two Quartz Veins Are Present In The Decomposed Granite; One Is 2 Ffet Wide And The Other Is One Foot Wide. Manganese Minerals Occur In Stringers In The Quartz And As Disseminations In The Granite (Huntting, 1956, P. 261).

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED QUARTZ MONZONITE OF THE POGUE MOUNTAIN QUARTZ MONZONITE (GULICK AND KOROSEC, 1990, P. 24).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • IN 1916, THE MINE PRODUCED TWENTY-FIVE 30-TON CARLOADS OF ORE SAID TO CONTAIN 20% MN (HUNTTING, 1956, P. 261).

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.

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J.T., 1922, DEPOSITS OF MANGANESE ORE IN MONTANA, UTAH, OREGON, AND WASHINGTON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 725-C, P. 141-243.

  • Deposit

    PATTY, E.N.; GLOVER, S.L., 1921, THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF WASHINGTON, WITH STATISTICS FOR 1919: WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 21, 155 P., 1 PL.

  • Deposit

    SHEDD, SOLON, 1924, THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF WASHINGTON WITH STATISTICS FOR 1922; WITH AN ARTICLE ON COAL AND COKE, BY G.W. EVANS: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY BULLETIN 30, 224 P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1991 Berger, Mary A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1993 Frank, Dave U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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