Bodie

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10104274
MRDS ID SP00199
Record type Site
Current site name Bodie
Alternate or previous names Northern Gold
Related records 10253008

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.89171, 48.8304 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bodie(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Republic(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Okanogan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Kettle(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 038N}039N 031E;031E 3}34 SW4 (03) Washington

Comments on the location information

  • ELEVATION 3000 FEET

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Magnetite Unknown
Pyrite Unknown
Pyrrhotite Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Eocene-Oligocene volcanic rocks

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • See Comments

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT IS IN THE KLONDIKE MOUNTAIN FORMATION. WHOLE-ROCK GEOCHEMISTRY SUGGESTS THAT THE ROCK IS A RHYOLITE; HOWEVER, THIN SECTION WORK BY STOFFEL (1990) SUGGESTS THAT ALTERED MAFIC MINERALS WERE ORINGINALLY PYROXENES AND THAT THE HIGH SILICA CONTENT OF THE ROCK MAY BE DUE TO THE ADDITION OF SILICA IN THE FORM OF STRINGERS AND VEINLETS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Wauconda

Comments on the production information

  • A 10-STAMP AMALGAMATION-CYANIDE MILL PROCESSED APPROXIMATELY 15,000 TONS OF GOLD ORE FROM 1902-1916. IN 1930 A 70 TON/DAY MILL WAS BUILT TO RECOVER FREE GOLD AND LOW-GRADE ORE THAT CONTAINED ABOUT 0.65 OZ/TON AU AND 0.60 OZ/TON AG. IN 1938, THE CAPACITY OF THE MILL WAS INCREASED TO 125 TONS/DAY, AND CYANIDATION AND FLOATATION CIRCUITS WERE ADDED. MINING AND MILLING WERE CARRIED OUT UNTIL 1944, WITH AS MANY AS 40 MINERS WORKING THREE SHIFTS AND PRODUCING AS MUCH AS $1500 OF AU AND AU A DAY. FROM 1930-1944, ABOUT 50,000 TONS OF ORE VALUED AT ABOUT $280,000 WAS MININED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOST OF THE MINING TOOK PLACE ON THE BODIE NO. 1 CLAIM. AT LEAST 10,000 FEET OF UNDERGROUND WORK ON FIVE MAIN CROSSCUT ADITS PENETRATE THE BRECCIA AND INTERSECT THE VEIN. A GLORY HOLE MINED RICH PARTS OF THE BODIE VEIN AT THE SURFACE (MOEN, 1980, P. 74). ; 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-JUN-1993 Frank, Dave U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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