Lucky Knock

Past Producer in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodity Antimony
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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10056006
MRDS ID SP00247
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Knock
Alternate or previous names Lawrence

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.48673, 48.77095 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ellisforde(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Washington Okanogan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 038N 027E 19 SE4 OF SW4 Washington

Comments on the location information

  • WEST SIDE OF WHITESTONE MOUNTAIN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Antimony Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Phyllite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.48673, 48.77095

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sediments Of The Spectacle Formation Were Deposited Along An Active Continental Margin.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stibnite Crystals Are Found In Veinlets In Fracture And Generally Silicified Limestone Beds And In Faults In The Limestone Beds Overlying Phyllitic Beds. Stibnite Sometimes Is Present Along Bedding Planes In Limestone, And In Some Places, The Stibnite Replaces The Limestone (Purdy, 1951, P. 99-101).

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT IS IN A SEQUENCE LIMESTONE AND PHYLLITE OF THE PERMIAN SPECTACLE FORMATION OF THE ANARCHIST GROUP (STOFFEL, 1990, GEOL. MAP).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • ABOUT 40 TONS ASSAYING 62% SB WERE SHIPPED IN ABOUT 1907. A PLANT TO TRANSFORM STIBNITE TO ANTIMONY OXIDE WAS BUILT AT THE SITE BETWEEN 1915 AND 1917. ANTIMONY OXIDE AND ABOUT 500 TONS OF HIGH-GRADE STIBNITE ORE WERE SHIPPED. ONE CARLOAD CONTAINING 42 TONS OF HAND-SORTED ORE GRADING 30.47% SB WAS SHIPPED IN 1941. IN 1948, SEVEN SHIPMENTS TOTALLY 47 TONS OF HAND-SORTED MATERIAL THAT AVERAGED 55.9% SB WERE MADE (PURDY, 1951, P. 94-96).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF 1000 FEET OF DRIFTS, CROSSCUTS, AND WINZES (HUNTTING, 1956, P. 19). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

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.

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