Golden Zone

Past Producer in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Molybdenum
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 10104281
MRDS ID SP00222
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Zone

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.73229, 48.97566 (WGS84)
Elevation 488
Relative position AT THE BASE OF MOUNT CHOPAKA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nighthawk(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Oroville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Okanogan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Similkameen(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 040N 025E 7 NEAR SE CORNER Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Molybdenum Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.73229, 48.97566

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description The Similkameen Batholith Is A Concentrically Zoned Plutonic Suite With Early Mafic Alkalic Rocks Bordering And Intruded By Calc-Alkalic Granitic Rocks. The Undeformed Body Is In The Upper Plate Of The Okanogan Valley Fault ( Buddington And Burmester, 1990).

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The Vein Trends N20e And Dips 40nw; Rocks Are Visibly Altered As Much As 1 Foot From The Vein (Rinehart And Fox, 1972, P. 88).

Comments on the geologic information

  • SHEAR ZONE IN SIMILKAMEEN COMPOSITE PLUTON (RINEHART AND FOX, 1972, GEOL. MAP).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Nighthawk, Mt. Chopaka Area

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCED PRIOR TO 1911 AND IN 1939 (HUNTTING, 1956, P. 140).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUDDINGTON, A.M.; BURMESTER, R.F., 1990, THE SIMILKAMEEN BATHOLITH: A MID-JURASSIC, POST-TECTONIC COMPLEX IN THE QUESNEL TERRANE, NORTH-CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND SOUTH-CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA [ABSTRACT]: GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ABSTRACTS WITH PROGRAMS, V. 22, N. 3, P. 10-11.

  • 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.

  • Deposit

    UMPLEBY, J.B., 1911, PART I.-- GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MYERS CREEK MINING DISTRICT; PART II. -- GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE OROVILLE-NIGHTHAWK MINING DISTRICT: WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 5, 111 P.

  • 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.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEVELOPED BY 5000 FEET OF TUNNELS AND DRIFTS (RINEHART AND FOX, 1972, P. 89). ; 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-AUG-1993 Frank, Dave U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references