The Gold Reef Mine is a gold mine located in Stevens county, Washington at an elevation of 2,841 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 2,841 Feet (866 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 48.6303, -118.02530
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Mine Description
Location: SW1/4SE1/4 sec. 9, (36-38E), on top of hill, Kettle Falls dist.
Access: Road.
Property: 4 unpatented claims.
Owner: William Setzen and Ross Morehead, Colville, Wash. (1949). Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating Co. (1932). M. 1. Stellman and G. F. Grundy (1938).
Ore: Gold, silver, copper.
Deposit: Quartz vein said to avo 2 to 3 ft. wide and to be traceable for 800 ft. Vein is along contact between argillite and acidic dike.
Development: 750 ft. of adits and 165 ft. of shafts and inclines.
Improvements: Small homemade mill.
Assays: 24 tons shipped to smelter assayed 0.542 oz. Au, 0.834 oz. Ag.
Production: $100,000 reported prior to 1935. 1939 (24 tons). 2 or 3 carloads in 1946 and 1947.
Source: Gold in Washington, Bulletin No. 42, 1955. State of Washington Division of Mines and Geology.
Gold Reef Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Gold Reef Mine
Secondary: Benvenue
Secondary: Golden Reef
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: Washington
County: Stevens
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
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: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: 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
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Materials
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Comments
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References
Reference (Deposit): BULLETIN 37,PART 2,VOLUME I,P 169,170;
Washington Gold
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