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Nookachamps Creek

Occurrence in Skagit county in Washington, United States with commodities Arsenic, Nickel
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  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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  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 10047983
MRDS ID M700362
Record type Site
Current site name Nookachamps Creek
Related records 10252891

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.14874, 48.41425 (WGS84)
Elevation 671
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 6.5 MI SOUTHEAST OF SEDRO WOOLEY; ABOUT 4 MI NORTHEAST OF MONTBORNE, Estimated Near Center Of South Boundary Of Section, South Of Nookachamps Creek

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Skagit(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sedro-Woolley South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Port Townsend(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Victoria(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Skagit(hydrologic unit)

Puget Sound(hydrologic accounting unit)

Puget Sound(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Skagit

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 034N 005E 22 S2 Washington

Comments on the location information

  • REALGAR FOUND NEAR SOUTH LINE SEC 22 ON THE UPPER PART OF NOOKACHAMPS CREEK; LOCATION OF NICKEL MINERALS WITHIN SECTION NOT STATED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Arsenic Critical Primary
Nickel Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Realgar Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.14874, 48.41425
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BOULDERS (REALGAR), UNKNOWN (NI)

Comments on the geologic information

  • NO GEOLOGIC INFORMATION IN REFERENCE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • NO REAL WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUNTTING, M.T., 1956, INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS - PART II, METALLIC MINERALS: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 37, V. 1, P. 27, 278

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit REALGAR FLOAT FOUND AS BOULDERS IN STREAM IS NOT MUCH ROUNDED AND MAY BE NEAR SOURCE; HOWEVER, SOURCE HAS APPARENTLY NOT BEEN FOUND. THE TYPE OF DEPOSIT IS UNKNOWN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-82 Lawson, William A. (Evarts, Russell C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-92 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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