The Ethel is a copper, gold, and silver mine located in Snohomish county, Washington.
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Ethel MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Ethel
Secondary: Ethel Consolidated
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Location
State: Washington
County: Snohomish
District: Index
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
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
Type: R
Description: Rocks Of The Area Include Various Accreted (Melange) Terranes And Batholithic Rocks Representing Early Igneous Activity Of The Cascade Magmatic Arc.
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Tonalite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Oligocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Bornite
Ore: Fluorite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Production): ABOUT 400 TONS (HUNTTING, 1956, P. 83).
Comment (Geology): THE COUNTRY ROCK IS GRANODIORITE OF THE INDEX BATHOLITH (TABOR AND OTHERS, GEOL. MAP, P. 10) WHICH IS CUT BY NARROW DIKES OF GRANODIORITE PORPHYRY (WEAVER, 1912, P. 76).
References
Reference (Deposit): TABOR, R.W.; FRIZZELL, V.A., JR.; BOOTH, D.B.; WHETTEN, J.T.; WAITT, R.B.; ZARTMAN, R.E., 1982, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SKYKOMISH RIVER 1:100,000 QUADRANGLE, WASHINGTON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 82-747, 31 P., 1 PL.
Reference (Deposit): WEAVER, C.E., 1912, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE INDEX MINING DISTRICT: WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 7, 96 P.
Reference (Deposit): BROUGHTON, W.A., 1942, INVENTORY OF MINERAL PROPERTIES IN SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 6, 64 P., 1 PL.
Reference (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.
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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