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Kettle River

Plant in Ferry county in Washington, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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  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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Production statistics
  16. Reserves and resources
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10180381
MRDS ID SP00080
MAS/MILS ID 0530190452
Record type Site
Current site name Kettle River
Alternate or previous names Kettle River Operations, Granny, K-S
Related records 10055880

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.62614, 48.87735 (WGS84)
Elevation 610
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Ferry(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Vulcan Mountain(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 Ferry

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 039 N 033 E 15 C Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Electrum Unknown
Magnetite Unknown
Marcasite Unknown
Pyrite Unknown
Pyrrhotite Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Silver Unknown
Stephanite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -118.62614, 48.87735
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N17E
    Dip 70E
    Thickness 2M
    Length 280M
    Width 208M
    Depth to top 123M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 FISSURE VEIN
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 REPLACEMENT
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Secondary mode of Origin METAMORPHISM
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Secondary Ore Control LITHOLOGY
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. UNKNOWN
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 UNKNOWN
    Strike And Dip N17E:70E
    Minimum Depth to Top 18
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 1
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 970731
  • Strike N45W
    Dip 16E
    Thickness 131M
    Length 358M
    Width 258M
    Area 107HA
    Depth to top 175M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 2
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 REPLACEMENT
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin METAMORPHISM
    Primary Ore Control IGNEOUS
    Secondary Ore Control LITHOLOGY
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. UNKNOWN
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 UNKNOWN
    Strike And Dip N45W:16E
    Minimum Depth to Top 75
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 6
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 3
    Total Surface Area (HA) 107
    Date of Last Modification 970731

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Mining method Open Pit
Year of first production 1990
Plant type Leach
Plant subcategory Hydromet
Milling method Carbon-In-Leach-Electrowin

Mining district

District name Curlew

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Private Lease
Type of mineral rights Other

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Echo Bay Mines Ltd.
    Interest 100
    Home office Canada
    Year 1997
    First year 1992
  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Echo Bay Mines Ltd.
    Interest 70
    Home office Canada
    Year 1997
    Last year 1992
  • Type Owner
    Owner Crown Resources Corp.
    Interest 30
    Home office Colorado
    Year 1997
    Last year 1992

Production statistics

  • Year 1990
    Description Mill Feed @ 6.65 G/Mt Au 679000 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 379000mt 7g/mt
  • Year 1990
    Description Gold Production 83300 T Oz
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 2590919.96g
  • Year 1991
    Description Mill Feed @ 5.62 G/Mt Au 585134 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 585134mt 6g/mt
  • Year 1991
    Description Gold Production 90273 T Oz
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 2807804.54g
  • Year 1992
    Description Mill Feed @ 5.31 G/Mt Au 596020 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 596020mt 5MT
  • Year 1992
    Description Gold Production 89849 T Oz
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 2794616.66g
  • Year 1993
    Description Mill Feed @ 5.01 G/Mt Au 521631 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 521631mt 5g/mt
  • Year 1993
    Description Gold Production 73431 T Oz
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 2283959.71g
  • Year 1994
    Description Mill Feed @ 5.11 G/Mt Au 474457 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 474457mt
  • Year 1994
    Description Gold Production 66782 T Oz
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 2077152.66g
  • Year 1995
    Description Mill Feed @ 7.27 G/Mt Au 497137 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 497137mt 7g/mt
  • Year 1995
    Description Gold Production 100419 T Oz
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 3123380.45g
  • Year 1996
    Description Gold Production 124910 T Oz
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 3885135.81g
  • Year 1996
    Description Mill Feed @ 8.23 G/Mt Au 545218 Mt Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 545218mt 8g/mt

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1995
    Demonstrated 1453310mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 7.063 g/mt Gold Major 1995
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1997
    Demonstrated 1130352mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 6.34 g/mt Gold Major 1997
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1997
    Demonstrated 672224mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 6.45 g/mt Gold Major 1997
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1997
    Demonstrated 1802576mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 6.38 g/mt Gold Major 1997
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1997
    Demonstrated 132449mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 6.343 g/mt Gold Major 1997
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1997
    Inferred 123377mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 6.034 g/mt Gold Major 1997
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1997
    Demonstrated 1935025mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 6.377 g/mt Gold Major 1997

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • TOTAL PROVEN + PROBABLE; 12/31/96; LAMEFOOT & K-S DEPOSITS: PRODUCTION AVG 1992-1996:

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 5223M
    Overall depth 0M
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Status of Mining Method PROPOSED
    Mining Method OVERHAND SHRINKAGE 10-67
    Swell Factor .67
    Percent Waste Rock 0
    Percent Recovery 90
    Hardness of Rock HARDROCK FISSURED WITH MODERATE WATER
    Rock Characteristics ONE SYSTEM OF WEAKNESS PLANES
    Rock Support Chars. SUPPORTING MAY BACK SLAB
    Mine Support Chars. POST, HEADBOARD, CAPS, ROOF BOLTS
    Number of Shafts 0
    Length of Inclines (m) 1021
    Slope of Inclines 15
    Number of Inclines 1
    Avg. Length of Adits (m) 0
    Number of Adits 0
    1st Condition of Workings OPEN
    Capacity 600
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Unit Production Cost 31.32
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Operating Days per Year 182
    Operating Shifts per Day 2
    Year of Information 1990

Comments on the workings information

  • ALL WASTE MATERIAL IS RECLAIMED FOR DRY FILL UNDERGROUND. TAILINGS POND IS FULLY LINED WITH VLDPE. TAILS CONTAIN MAGNETITE AND SOME CLAYS. ALL SURFACE SITE RUNOFF GOES TO TAILINGS POND. POND TOTALLY ENCLOSED, H2O RECLAIMED. UNDERDRAIN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    ECHO BAY MINES INC., 1996 ANNUAL REPORT, P60.

  • Reserve-Resource

    ECHO BAY MINES INC., 1995 FORM 10-K REPORT, PP. 10, 38.

  • Reserve-Resource

    ECHO BAY MINES INC., 1996 FORM 10-K REPORT, P17.

  • Deposit

    ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL, THIS MONTH IN MINING: ECHO

  • Deposit

    BAY ANNOUNCES KETTLE RIVER MINE, JANUARY, 84 OR 89 (?),

  • Deposit

    V1, #1, P17.

  • Deposit

    RANDOL MINING DIRECTORY, 1994/95, U.S. MINES & MINING

  • Deposit

    COMPANIES, PP. 407-408.

  • Deposit

    WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY & EARTH RESOURCES, WASHINGTON

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGY, 1991, V19, #1, PP. 7, 12.

  • Deposit

    RANDOL MINING DIRECTORY, 1996/97, U.S. MINES AND MINING

  • Deposit

    COMPANIES, PP. 323-324.

  • Deposit

    AMERICAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1996, P91.

  • Deposit

    AMERICAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1997, P102.

  • Deposit

    THE MINING RECORD, VOL. 107, #49, DEC. 4, 1996, PP. 1, 6.

  • Deposit

    THE MINING RECORD, VOL. 108, #9, FEB. 26, 1997, PP, 10, 11.

  • Deposit

    ECHO BAY MINES INC., 1995 ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 4, 25, 38.

  • Deposit

    ECHO BAY MINES INC., 1995 FORM 10-K REPORT, PP. 3, 9-10,

  • Deposit

    12, 14, 37-39.

  • Deposit

    ECHO BAY MINES LTD., 1993 FORM 10-K REPORT, PP 58.

  • Deposit

    ECHO BAY MINES LTD., 1994 ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 38, 58.

  • Deposit

    BANCROFT, H. THE ORE DEPOSITS OF NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON,

  • Deposit

    U.S.G.S. BUL 550, 1914, PP. 150-153.

  • Deposit

    FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT, KETTLE RIVER PROJECT,

  • Deposit

    FERRY COUNTY, WASHINGTON, DEPT. OF ECOLOGY, STATE OF

  • Deposit

    WASHINGTON, SEPT. 1988, 135P, WITH APPENDIX.

  • Deposit

    FULL, ROY, P., & ROBERT M. GRANTHAM, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE

  • Deposit

    REPUBLIC MINING DISTRICT, FERRY COUNTY, WASHINGTON, ORE

  • Deposit

    DEPOSITS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1933/1967, JOHN D. RIDGE,

  • Deposit

    ED. PUB. BY THE AIME, NEW YORK, 1968, V 2, PP. 1481-1494.

  • Deposit

    MCQUISTON, F. W. JR. THE PRACTICE OF CYANIDATION, IN THE

  • Deposit

    PRECIOUS METALS CHAPTER OF THE SME MINERAL PROCESSING

  • Deposit

    HANDBOOK, NORMAN L, WEISS, ED. SOCIETY OF MINING

  • Deposit

    ENGINEERS, NEW YORK, NY, 1985, PP. 18-4 - 18-8.

  • Deposit

    MORRISON-KUNDSEN COMPANY, INC., KNOB HILL GOLD MINE,

  • Deposit

    REPUBLIC UNIT, HECLA MINING COMPANY, REPUBLIC, WASHINGTON,

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES MAS PROPERTY EVALUATION FILE,

  • Deposit

    MINERALS AVAILABILITY FIELD OFFICE, DENVER, CO, JULY 1983.

  • Deposit

    MUESSIG, S. GEOLOGY OF THE REPUBLIC QUADRANGLE AND A PART

  • Deposit

    OF THE AENEAS QUADRANGLE, FERRY COUNTY, WASHINGTON, USA,

  • Deposit

    U.S.G.S. BUL 1216, 1967, 135P.

  • Deposit

    PARKER, R. L., AND J. A. CALKINS, GEOLOGY OF THE CURLEW

  • Deposit

    QUADRANGLE, FERRY, COUNTY, WASHINGTON, U.S.G.S. BUL 1169,

  • Deposit

    1964, 95P.

  • Deposit

    PATTY, E. N., THE METAL MINES OF WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BUL 23, 1921, PP. 174-175.

  • Deposit

    UMPLEBY, J. B. GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF REPUBLIC MINING

  • Deposit

    DISTRICT, WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BUL 1, 67P.

  • Deposit

    WRIGHT, L. B. GEOLOGIC RELATIONS AND NEW ORE BODIES OF THE

  • Deposit

    REPUBLIC DISTRICT, WASHINGTON, AIME TECHNICAL PUBLICATION

  • Deposit

    #2197, JULY 1947, 19P.

  • Deposit

    SKILLINGS MINING REVIEW, 1/2/93, P3.

  • Deposit

    RANDOL MINING DIRECTORY, 1993/94, P341.

  • Deposit

    THE NORTHERN MINER, 2/26/90, P13.

  • Deposit

    ECHO BAY MINES INC., 1996 FORM 10-K REPORT, PP. 1-5, 16-17.

  • Deposit

    ECHO BAY MINES INC., 1996 ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 28-29, 56-57,60

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE SITE IS ACCESSED BY 6 KM OF GRADED ROAD. POWER IS SUPPLIED BY A 115 KV TRANSMISSION LINE. POTABLE WATER IS SUPPLIED BY A WELL. LABOR COMMUTES FROM SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 08-SEP-97 Buckingham, David A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

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