Lone Jack Mine

Producer in Whatcom county in Washington, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Bismuth
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Production statistics
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047781
MRDS ID M700060
Record type Site
Current site name Lone Jack Mine
Alternate or previous names Mount Baker, Post-Lambert, Brooks-Willis, Boundary Gold, Patented Claims: Lone Jack, Whist, Lulu, Jennie, Sidney, Jumbo,, Mt Vernon

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.62068, 48.94481 (WGS84)
Elevation 1478
Relative position 18 MI NORTHWEST OF WHATCOM PASS, ABOUT 1 MI SOUTHEAST OF TWIN LAKES; ABOUT 2.2 MI NORTHWEST OF MAMIE PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Whatcom(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Sefrit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Baker(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Concrete(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sumas River(hydrologic unit)

Puget Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Puget Sound(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Mount Baker Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Whatcom

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 040N 009E 22,23 Washington

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED. NEAR HEAD OF WEST FORK OF SILESIA CREEK. HUNTTING INDICATES PART OF PROPERTY IS IN SE/4 SEC. 15

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result AVERAGE TENOR OF ORE SAID TO BE $15-$35/TON AT $20.67/OZ AU. PICKED SAMPLES RAN AS HIGH AS $850/TON. WHIST VEIN ASSAYED 0.83 OZ/TON AU, 0.10 OZ/TON AG. DEPOSIT SAID TO AVERAGE ABOUT 2.5 OZ/TON. A 2-TON SMELTER TEST SAID TO HAVE NETTED $450. GOLD FINENESS 955 ASSUMING ALL OF SILVER IS CONTAINED IN GOLD

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Shuksan Metamorphic Suite, Darrington Phyllite
    Rock description Shuksan Metamorphic Suite, Darrington Phyllite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.62068, 48.94481

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN WITH PINCH AND SWELL CHARACTERISTICS
    Strike N 10-20 W; E-W; N 10 E
    Dip 45 W; 8-60 S; 80 SE
    Thickness 2.74M
    Length 762M
    Depth to top 0M
  • General form VEIN WITH PINCH AND SWELL CHARACTERISTICS
    Strike N 10-20 W; E-W; N 10 E
    Dip 45 W; 8-60 S; 80 SE
  • General form VEIN WITH PINCH AND SWELL CHARACTERISTICS
    Strike N 10-20 W; E-W; N 10 E
    Dip 45 W; 8-60 S; 80 SE

Comments on the geologic information

  • WEST BOUNDARY OF CHILLIWACK BATHOLITH IS 1 MI EAST OF DEPOSIT. HOST ROCKS HAVE BEEN METAMORPHOSED TO BLUESCHIST FACIES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1897
Discoverer R.S. Lambert, Jack Post, L.G. Van Valkenberg
Year of first production 1902
Year of last production 1924
Production years 1902-1905, 1959-1918,

Mining district

District name Mount Baker District

Land status

Ownership category National Wilderness
Area name In Mount Baker Wilderness In Mount Baker National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner R. J. Cole, Maple Falls, Wash.
    First year 1966
  • Type Owner
    Owner Harry Bullene, Bellingham, Wash.
    First year 1966

Production statistics

  • Year 1924
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^.58 Oz/Ton Au, 0.024 Oz/Ton Ag
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Silver Silver 1g/mt
    Ore Gold Gold 16g/mt

Comments on the production information

  • ORE MINED FROM LULU VEIN PROIR TO 1924 VALUED AT $15-35/TON, AT $20,67 GOLD PRICES. BASED ON MINT RECEIPTS AND VOLUME OF QUARTZ MINED, VALUE OF ORE FROM LONG JACK VEIN ESTIMATED AT 2.5 OZ AU/TON.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 518.16M
    Overall depth 39.62M

Comments on the workings information

  • 400 FT ADIT WITH ORE SHOOT, MANWAY, RAISES; 680 FT ADIT WITH RAISE

Comments on development

  • ONE OF EARLIEST LOCATIONS IN DISTRICT. MINE BECAME THE MAIN GOLD PRODUCER IN THE COUNTY IN EARLY 1900'S UNTIL MILL BURNED IN 1907. OPERATED INTERMITTENTLY FROM 1898 TO 1924 BY VARIOUS OWNERS AND LESSEES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MOEN, W.S., 1969, MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 37, P. 88-89.

  • Deposit

    HUNTTING, M.T., 1956, INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS - PART II, METALLIC MINERALS: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 57, P. 178.

  • Deposit

    PATTY, E.N., 1921, THE METAL MINES OF WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 23, P. 309.

  • Deposit

    LANDES, HENRY; THYNG, W.S., LYON, D.A., ROBERTS, MILNOR, 1902, THE METALLIFEROUS RESOURCES OF WASHINGTON, EXCEPT IRON: WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1901, PT. 2, P. 80-81.

  • Deposit

    SMITH, G.O., 1902, THE MOUNT BAKER MINING DISTRICT, WASHINGTON: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, V. 73, NO. 11, P. 379-380.

  • Deposit

    DERKEY, R.E., JOSEPH, N.L., AND LASMANIS, RAYMOND, 1990, METAL MINES OF WASHINGTON - PRELIMINARY REPORT: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN-FILE RPORT 90-18, P. 560.

  • Deposit

    TABOR, R.W., HAUGERUD, R.A., BOOTH, D.B., AND BROWN, E.B., 199X, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE MOUNT BAKER 30 X 60 MINUTE QUADRANGLE, WASHINGTON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 9X-XXX, SCALE 1:100,000 (IN PREPARATION IN 1993).

  • Production

    DERKEY AND OTHERS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ FISSURE VEINS WITH MINERALIZATION LOCALIZED IN SHOOTS. 3 MAIN VEINS TRACEABLE FOR 2500 FT: LONE JACK VEIN CROPS OUT FOR 500 FT AND IS 1-6 FT WIDE (AVG 2.5 FT); LULU VEIN IS A FEW INCHES TO 9 FT WIDE (AVG 6 FT); WHIST VEIN AVERAGES 2 FT WIDE. LONE JACK FEIN TERMINATES TO NORTH AGAINST FAULT
Deposit HOST ROCK DESCRIBED AS BLACK PHYLLITIC SCHIST. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Caress, Mary E. (Evarts, Russ) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1991 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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