The Easter Sunday Mine is a copper, gold, and silver mine located in Stevens county, Washington at an elevation of 3,550 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 3,550 Feet (1,082 Meters)
Commodity: Copper, Gold, Silver
Lat, Long: 48.95306, -118.09278
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Mine Description
Location: Near center E% sec. 22, (40-37E), Orient dist.
Access: 8 mi. E. of Rockcut on Easter Sunday Lk. road.
Property: 2 patented claims: Easter Sunday, Cairn. Owner: D. C. Ames & Associates, Kenilworth, Ill. (1949). Memphis Mining Co. (1903) . Waukegan Mining Co. (1903). Waukegan & Washington Mining & Smelting Co. (1907). Forest Mining & Milling Co. (1909).
Ore: Gold, copper, silver.
Ore minerals: Pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, boulangerite, tetrahedrite.
Deposit: 2- to 6-ft. quartz vein in cherty argillite. Vein sparsely mineralized, and cut off by a monzonite dike.
Development: 130-ft. inclined shaft and 2 short levels run at 70 and 100 ft. from the collar total 550 ft. of workings. 480-ft. diamond drill hole.
Assays: 20-ton shipment av 1.21% Cu, 0.44 oz. Au, 12.4 oz. Ag.
Production: Shipped approx. 20 tons of ore in 1909.
Source: Gold in Washington, Bulletin No. 42, 1955. State of Washington Division of Mines and Geology.
Easter Sunday Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Easter Sunday Mine
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Location
State: Washington
County: Stevens
District: Orient
Land Status
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Holdings
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Workings
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Ownership
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Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Northern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 1.21% CU, .44 OZ AU, 12.4 OZ AG
Materials
Ore: Boulangerite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Commodity): PRODUCED 20 TONS IN 1909
Comment (Geology): HR.AGE.MV: CHERTY ARGILLITE
References
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