1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Eureka Zinc Deposit

Occurrence in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodity Zinc
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041681
MRDS ID M056848
Record type Site
Current site name Eureka Zinc Deposit
Related records 10180162

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.0467, 48.19678 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 4.5 MILES NW OF NESPELEM

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 09 W2 Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Specularite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

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) Paleocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Covada Group
    Rock description Covada Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.0467, 48.19678
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Lenses Within 21' Zone

Ore body information

  • General form SMALL, DISCONTINUOUS, HIGH-GRADE LENSES
    Width 6.4M

Comments on the geologic information

  • METAMORPHIC ROCK SURROUNDED BY GRANITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Nespelem District

Comments on development

  • UNKNOWN DEVELOPMENT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WASH. DMG BULL. 37, PART II, P. 364.

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 677, PLATE 1

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DISCONTINUOUS LENSES

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site