Lucille Mine

Past Producer in Stevens county in Washington, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Silver, Cadmium, Tungsten, Gallium
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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103869
MRDS ID M060119
Record type Site
Current site name Lucille Mine
Alternate or previous names Owen, Boundary Silver-Lead
Related records 10302109

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.55528, 48.95014 (WGS84)
Elevation 1189
Relative position 10 MILES NE OF NORTHPORT, WASHINGTON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Stevens(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Leadpoint(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Colville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sandpoint(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake(hydrologic unit)

Upper Columbia(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Colville National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Stevens

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 040N 042E 30 Washington

Comments on the location information

  • ON EAST SLOPE OF RED TOP MOUNTAIN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Secondary
Cadmium Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Gallium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Scheelite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Porphyry > Lamprophyre
    Rock unit name Lamprophyre Dikes
    Rock description Lamprophyre Dikes
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Rock unit name Maitlen Phyllite, Marble
    Rock description Maitlen Phyllite, Marble

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.55528, 48.95014

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description On Se Limb Of Sw Plunging Syncline

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 30 DEG. E.
    Dip 40 DEG.NW
    Plunge 37 DEG
    Plunge direction SW
    Length 60.96M
    Width 18.29M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 76.2M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Folds Along The Marble - Phyllite Contact In Presence Of Altered Lamprophyre Dikes.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1910
Discoverer Elmer C. Owen
Year of first production 1927

Mining district

District name Northport District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Pacific Northwest Mining Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Frank Nettig And Joseph Zoldok

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Length 457.2M
    Overall depth 76.2M

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE DEVELOPED BY TWO ADITS, ONE 140 FT. ABOVE THE OTHER, SOME STOPING ABOVE UPPER ADIT.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: ORE CONTAINS TRACE OF GALLIUM

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUNTTING, M.T. 1956, INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS PART II METALLIC MINERALS: WASH. DIV. MINES AND GEOL. BULL. 37 VOL. 1, P. 378

  • Deposit

    WEAVER, C.E., 1920, MINERAL RESOURCES OF STEVENS COUNTY: WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 20, P. 298-299

  • Deposit

    YATES, R.G., 1964, GEOLOGIC MAP AND SECTIONS OF THE DEEP CREEK AREA, STEVENS AND PEND OREILLE COUNTIES, WASHINGTON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISC. GEOL. INV. MAP I-412

  • Deposit

    1910 DIREXPL E. O. OWEN

  • Deposit

    1926 DIREXPL BOUNDARY SILVER LEAD CO.

  • Deposit

    1944 GEOLMAP C.D. CAMPBELL - OPEN FILE MAP.

  • Deposit

    1952 DIREXPL PACIFIC NORTHWEST MINING CO.

  • Deposit

    1954 GEOLMAP R. G. YATES - U.S.G.S. MF-137 AND U.S.G.S. MAP I-412

  • Production

    U.S.B.M. INF. CIRC. 7872

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IS IN IRREGULAR MINERALIZED ZONES IN MARBLE ASSOCIATED WITH QUARTZ VEINS AND LAMPROPHYRE DIKES. SOME CONCENTRATED ALONG CONTACT BETWEEN MARBLE AND OVERLYING PHYLLITE. MARBLE ABOUT 90 FT. THICK.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1973 Puffett, Willard P. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references