Leuena

Past Producer in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Gold
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10056003
MRDS ID SP00243
Record type Site
Current site name Leuena
Alternate or previous names Laeuna, Launa;

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.79339, 48.57205 (WGS84)
Elevation 1524

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Conconully West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Oroville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Okanogan(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Okanogan(hydrologic unit)

Upper Columbia(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Columbia(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management OR)

Bureau of Land Management OR BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Okanogan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 036N 024E 35 SW4 Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Stephanite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.79339, 48.57205

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description The Conconully Pluton Is A Directionless, Post-Tectonic Pluton That Was Intruded Into A Major Structural Zone (Stoffel, K.L., Dger, 1990, Oral Commun.).

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The 7-Ft-Thick Quartz Vein In Granodiorite Strikes N55e And Is Vertical (Moen, 1973).

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE VEIN IS IN THE CONCONULLY PLUTON, WHICH IS A LEUCOCRATIC, EQUIGRANULAR TO PORPHYRITIC, MEDIUM-TO COARSE-GRAINED, BIOTITE- AND HORNBLENDE-BEARING GRANODIORITE TO QUARTZ MONZONITE OF CRETACEOUS AGE (STOFFEL, 1990).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Conconully, Mineral Hill Area

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL CARLOADS WERE SHIPPED PRIOR TO 1890 (MOEN, 1973).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HIGH-GRADE PARTS OF THE VEIN CONTAINED 200-800 OZ/TON AG.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1991 Berger, Mary A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1993 Frank, Dave U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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