The Negro Creek Iron is a iron mine located in Chelan county, Washington at an elevation of 2,421 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 2,421 Feet (738 Meters)
Commodity: Iron
Lat, Long: 47.04078, -120.73917
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Negro Creek Iron MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Negro Creek Iron
Secondary: Nigger Creek Iron
Secondary: Davenport
Commodity
Primary: Iron
Secondary: Nickel
Secondary: Chromium
Location
State: Washington
County: Chelan
District: Blewett District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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Administrative Organization: Wenatchee National Forest
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: C.P. Davenport, Auburn, and others
Info Year: 1944
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Residual
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant:
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Cascade-Sierra Mountains
Physiographic Section: Northern Cascade Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Lateritic Ni
Orebody
Form: Blanket
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Conglomerate
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Eocene
Name: Serpentinite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chromite
Ore: Magnetite
Gangue: Serpentine
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Deposit consists of reworked residuum derived from underlying ophiolite complex and Swauk Formation
Comment (Geology): Ingalls Complex is an accreted ophiolite terrane
Comment (Workings): Adit and several open cuts
Comment (Reserve-Resource): Broughton (1943, p. 16-19) reports 59,850 tons of exposed, 45,720 tons of probable, and 435,850 tons of possible resources.
Comment (Geology): Some of the laterites were reworked prior to deposition of the Eocen Swauk Formation. Lamey (1950, p.) tentatively
References
Reference (Deposit): Broughton, W.A., 1943, The Blewett iron deposit, Chelan County, Washington (with preliminary tonnage estimates): Washington Division of Geology RI 10, 21 p.
Reference (Deposit): Broughton, W.A., 1944, Economic aspects of the Blewett-cle Elum iron ore zone, Chelan and Kittitas counties, Washington: Washington Division of Geology RI 12, p. 16-20
Reference (Deposit): Lamey, C.A., 1950, The Blewett iron-nickel deposit, Chelan County, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 969-D, p. 87-103
Reference (Deposit): Huntting, M.T., 1956, Inventory of Wasington minerals-Part II: Washington Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin 37, part II, Vol. 1, p. 194.
Reference (Deposit): Miller, R.B., 1985, The ophiolitic Ingalls Comples, north-central Cascade Mountains, Washington: Geological Society of America Bulletin, p. 27-42.
Reference (Deposit): Tabor, R.W., Waitt, R.B., Frizzel, V.A., Jr., Swanson, D.A., Byerly, G.R., and Bentley, 1982, Geologic map of the Wenatchee 1:100,000 quadrangele, central Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Map I-1311.
Reference (Deposit): Derkey, R.E., Joseph, N.L., and Lasmanis, Raymond, 1990, Metal Mines of Washington-preliminary report: Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources Open file Report 90-18p. 16.
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