Home Run Prospect

Occurrence in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Gold, Iron, Manganese
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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041547
MRDS ID M056631
Record type Site
Current site name Home Run Prospect
Related records 10253259

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.07336, 48.19623 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Armstrong Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Omak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Okanogan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Chief Joseph(hydrologic unit)

Upper Columbia(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Okanogan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 031N 030E 08 Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Iron Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Limonite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Specularite Ore

Analytical data

Result 2.32 OZ AG, .51% CU, TR. AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Colville Batholith
    Rock description Colville Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Covada Group
    Rock description Covada Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.07336, 48.19623

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N-S
    Dip 65W

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 9.14M

Comments on the workings information

  • 30 FT SHAFT

Comments on development

  • SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WASH. DMG BULL. 37, PART II, P. 304.

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL. 677, P. 82, PLATES 1, 7

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL AREA OF METAMORPHOSED SEDIMENTARY ROCKS WITH DISSEMINATED ORE-BEARING MINERALS; JOINTS AND SEAMS ARE STAINED WITH MALACHITE, LIMONITE, AND MN-OXIDES.

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.