Key Mine

Producer in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Bismuth, Zinc
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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109637
MRDS ID M056599
Record type Site
Current site name Key Mine
Related records 10132115

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.75339, 48.57789 (WGS84)
Elevation 853
Relative position 1.5 MILES NORTH OF CONCONCULLY BY ROAD.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Conconully West(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)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management OR)

Bureau of Land Management OR BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Okanogan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 036N 025E 31 SW OF SW Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Secondary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result $37 AG, PB/TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Mineral Hill
    Rock description Mineral Hill
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Mica Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss > Migmatite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.75339, 48.57789

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Schist-Granodiorite Contact Has A General Nw Trend, And Parallels The Regional Structural Trend Of The Metamorphic Rocks Of The Area.

Ore body information

  • Strike N 25 E
    Dip 60 NW
    Width 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Near Schist-Granodiorite Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Conconcully District; Conconcully Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner W. A. Hargraves
    Home office Conconcully, Wa.
    First year 1941

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Overall depth 24.38M
    Overall length 123.44M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WASH. DMG BULL. 37, PART II, P. 305.

  • Deposit

    WASH. DMG IC 49, P. 28

  • Production

    WASH. DMG BULL 37, P.305

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1975 Mccoy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1982 Lawson, William A. (Evarts, Russell C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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