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Mid Range

Past Producer in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc
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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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048528
MRDS ID MP00119
Record type Site
Current site name Mid Range
Related records 10056010

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.59813, 48.4851 (WGS84)
Elevation 2097
Relative position ABOUT 5 MI BY TRAIL NORTH OF GILBERT, TERMINUS OF THE TWISP RIVER ROAD. ABOUT 1 MI WEST OF GILBERT MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gilbert(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Twisp(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Concrete(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Methow(hydrologic unit)

Upper Columbia(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Okanogan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 035N 018E 34 Washington

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED. AT HEAD OF NORTH CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

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

Alteration

  • (Local) Granite Is Hydrothermally Altered

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 Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Golden Horn Batholith
    Rock description Golden Horn Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.59813, 48.4851
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Hozameen Fault

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN

Comments on the geologic information

  • BATHOLITH PROBABLY CRYSTALLIZED AROUND 47 MA. VARIOUS DATING TECHNIQUES YIELDED AGES OF ABOUT 38-42 MA, WHICH ARE PROBABLY DATES OF THE HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name In Okanogan National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Bill Johnson And Corvin Johnson, Winthrop, Wash.
    First year 1946

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL ADITS AND OPEN CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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 REPORT 90-18, P. 234.

  • Deposit

    HUNTTING, M.T., 1956, INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS - PART II, METALLIC MINERALS: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 37, V. 1, P. 144.

  • Production

    HUNTTING, 1956

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 MINERALIZED QUARTZ VEINS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1992 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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