Silver Hill

Occurrence in Spokane county in Washington, United States with commodities Tin, Tungsten
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008910
MRDS ID D001420
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Hill
Related records 10204272

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.33837, 47.54787 (WGS84)
Elevation 838
Relative position E. SIDE OF LATAH CREEK. 11 MI. OF PAVED ROAD FROM SPOKANE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Spokane(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Spokane SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Spokane(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spokane(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hangman(hydrologic unit)

Spokane(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Spokane

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 024N 043E 23,24 Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tin Critical Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.33837, 47.54787

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    PAGE, L.R., 1942, USGS BULL. 931-H.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO TUNGSTEN PRODUCTION. TUNGSTEN BEARING VEINS ASSOCIATED WITH CASSITERITE - BEARING PEGMATITES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1973 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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