Summit

Past Producer in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper
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. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10099370
MRDS ID SP00295
Record type Site
Current site name Summit
Alternate or previous names Alice

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.60895, 48.84678 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Enterprise(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 30 SW4 Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone
    Rock unit name Palmer Mountain Greenstone
    Rock description Palmer Mountain Greenstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.60895, 48.84678

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description The Palmer Mountain Greenstone Wa Deposited Along A Convergent Continental Margin Proximal To An Island Arc.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The Depoist Consists Of A 1.5-6-Ft-Wide, Vearly Vertical Vein Trending N55w In Aphanitic Greenstone And Medium-Grained Metagabrro. Chlorite Alteration Is Present Near The Vein (Rinehart And Fox, 1972, P. 78).

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE VEIN IS IN GREENSTONE AND METAGABBRO OF THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC PALMER MOUNTIAN GREENSTONE (RINEHART AND FOX, 1972).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Palmer Mtn.

Comments on the production information

  • CONCENTRATES RECOVERED FROM 85 TONS OF ORE IN 1937 WERE WORTH $1538.00; TOTAL PRODUCTION IN 1937 WAS ABOUT $1900.00 (HUNTTING, 1956, P. 149).

Comments on development

  • EXPL.COM: 26 MINES FOR EXPLORATION ; TOTAL$: 1

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.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MESOTHERMALS (1) FERRUGINOUS ORE ASSAY 179 OZ/TON AG. (2) ASSAYED 143.36 TO 1254.4 OZ/TON AG, BUT ONLY A SMALL QUANTITY OF ORE WAS EXTRACTED.
Deposit THE DEPOSIT WAS DEVELOPED BY THREE SHAFTS TOTALING 420 FEET AND FIVE ADITS TOTALING 1200 FEET (HUNTTING, 1956, P. 149). ; 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

Beyond USGS

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