Friday

Past Producer in Okanogan county in Washington, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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 10104279
MRDS ID SP00216
Record type Site
Current site name Friday
Alternate or previous names Tom Hal

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.98673, 48.08094 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT FIVE MILES NORTHWEST OF PATEROS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Okanogan(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pateros(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Omak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Okanogan(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

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 030N 023E 20 SW4 Washington

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.98673, 48.08094

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description The Methow Gneiss Is A Directionless, Post-Tectonic Pluton That Was Emplaced At Moderate To Deep Leves And Then Metamorphosed (Gulick And Korosec, 1990).

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The Quartz Vein In The Cretaceous Methow Gneiss Is About 1-Ft-Wide (Huntting, 1956, P. 139).

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE VEIN IS IN TONOLITIC GNEISS OF THE METHOW GNEISS (GULICK AND KOROSEC, 1990, GEOL. MAP).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Squaw Creek

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION INCLUDES A $5000.00 SHIPMENT MADE PRIOR TO 1897 AND ONE CARLOAD SHIPPED IN 1940. TEN TONS OF SELECTED ORE YIELDED $70/TON PRIOR TO 1902 (HUNTTING, 1956, P. 139).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUNNING, B.B., COMPILER, 1990, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE EAST HALF OF THE TWISP 1:100,000 QUADRANGLE, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN-FILE REPORT 90-9, 51 P., 1 PL.

  • Deposit

    GULICK, C.W.; KOROSEC, M.A., COMPILERS, 1990, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE OMAK 1:100,000 QUADRANGLE, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN-FILE REPORT 90-12, 52 P., 1 PL.

  • Deposit

    HUNTTING, M. T., 1956, INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS-PART II, METALLIC MINERALS: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 37, V. 1, 428 P.; V. 2, 67 P.

  • Deposit

    DERKEY, R.E.; JOSEPH, N.L.; LASMANIS, R., 1990, METAL MINES OF WASHINGTON-PRELIMINARY REPORT: STATE OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES OPEN-FILE REPORT 90-18, 577 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINERALIZATION AT THE FRIDAY MINE MAY BE SIMILAR TO THAT AT THE SULLIVAN PROSPECT.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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