The Quartz Creek is a copper, gold, silver, and molybdenum mine located in King county, Washington.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation:
Commodity: Copper, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum
Lat, Long: 47.57056, -121.55444
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Quartz Creek MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Quartz Creek
Secondary: Rainy
Secondary: Western States Copper
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Primary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Washington
County: King
District: Taylor River; Snoaulmie
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Cascade-Sierra Mountains
Physiographic Section: Northern Cascade Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Tonalite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Miocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Brannerite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Pyrrhotite
Gangue: Tourmaline
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Reserve-Resource): AN ANNUAL REPORT FOR INLAND COPPER LTD. REPORTS THE QUARTZ CREEK PROPERTY HAS AN INDICATED RESERVE OF 56,000 TONS GRADING 5.5% CU AND 2.5 OZ/TON AG, OR 905,000 TONS OF MATERIAL AVERAGING 1.1% CU.
Comment (Location): ON QUARTZ CREEEK
Comment (Development): ECON.COM: ONE LOAD OF CONCENTRATES SHIPPED TO TACOMA IN 1952. ALSO PRODUCED 1953-1955 (HUNTTING, 1956, P. 129). CONCENTRATES SHIPPED TO SMELTER IN 1942 (LIVINGSTON, 1971, P. 161). REPORTEDLY PRODUCED 2,000 TONS OF ORE BETWEEN 1951-1957 AND A FLOTATION MILL WAS CONSTRUCTED ON THE PROPERTY (REPORT OF MINERAL EXAMINATION FOR 28 UNPATENTED MINERAL CLAIMS OF THE RAINY PROPERTY)
Comment (Geology): THE QUARTZ CREEK DEPOSIT IS IN ROCKS OF THE SNOQUALMIE BATHOLITH, NORTHERN PHASE, WHICH CONSISTS OF GRANODIORITE AND TONALITE AND IS LIGHT COLORED, MEDIUM CRYSTALLINE, AND MOSTLY EQUIGRANULAR AND HAS HYPIDIOMORPHIC TEXTURE. THE ROCKS ARE COARSELY JOINTED AND CONTAIN BIOTITE AND HORNBLENDE AND LOCALLY CLINOPYROXENE. AGE OF THE NORTHERN PHASE IS ABOUT 25 M.Y. BASED ON INTERPRETATION OF NUMEROUS DISCORDANT K-AR AGES OF BOTH HORNBLENDE AND BIOTITE (TABOR AND OTHERS, 1982, P. 8).
References
Reference (Deposit): LIVINGSTON, V.E., JR., 1971, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 63, 200 P., 8 PL.
Reference (Deposit): WDGER OF-90-18
Reference (Deposit): GRANT, A.R., 1969, CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL CONTROLS FOR BASE METAL DEPOSITION IN THE CASCADE RANGE OF WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 58, 107 P.
Reference (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.
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