Second Prize Claims

Occurrence in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodity Copper
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041483
MRDS ID M056535
Record type Site
Current site name Second Prize Claims
Alternate or previous names Columbia, Gerhart, Gearhart
Related records 10277081, 10204755

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.62034, 48.86095 (WGS84)
Elevation 914
Relative position 2.8 MILES NNE OF LOOMIS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Enterprise(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)

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 039N 026E 19 SW OF SE OF NE OF SW Washington

Comments on the location information

  • WEST SLOPE PALMER MTN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.62034, 48.86095

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Palmer Mtn District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Charles Gerhart
    Home office Loomis, Wa.
    First year 1911

Comments on development

  • SHAFT AND ADITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WASH. DMG BULL. 37, PART II, P. 148

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 9 UNPATENTED CLAIMS, INCLUDING COLUMBIA

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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