Unknown Claim Group

Prospect in Kittitas county in Washington, United States with commodity Copper

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Public Land Survey System information
Commodities
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Land status
Ownership information
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10301481
MAS/MILS ID	0530370359
Record type	Site
Current site name	Unknown Claim Group
Alternate or previous names	Phelps Dodge Corp, Durrwachter Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference	Ore Body
Geographic coordinates:	-121.26119, 47.42622 (WGS84)
Elevation	914
Location accuracy	500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kittitas(county)

Washington(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chikamin Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Snoqualmie Pass(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wenatchee(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Yakima(hydrologic unit)

Yakima(hydrologic accounting unit)

Yakima(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)

Alpine Lakes Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country	State	County
United States	Washington	Kittitas

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian	Township	Range	Section	Fraction	State
Willamette	022 N	013 E	06		Washington

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Copper	Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1)	-121.26119, 47.42622	ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type	Surface-Underground
Development status	Prospect
Commodity type	Metallic
Significant	No

Mining district

District name	Snoqualmie

Land status

Ownership category	National Wilderness

Ownership information

Type Owner

Owner Phelps Dodge Corp.

Interest 100

Home office Arizona

Year 1962

Type	Owner
Owner	Phelps Dodge Corp.
Interest	100
Home office	Arizona
Year	1962

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
U.S. Bureau of Mines	Minerals Availability System	MAS	0530370359

Bibliographic references

Deposit

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1542, 1989, P. 152-155.

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	DRILL HOLES ON 35 CLAIMS OWNED BY PHELPS DODGE IN THE EARLY 1960S. PROBABLY COVER SAME AREA AS 0530370086.

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	04-APR-94	Causey, J. Douglas	U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Phelps Dodge Corp. — acquired by Subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan (2007)
Acquired by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold in 2007 in what was then the largest mining-industry deal ever (~US$26 B).

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.