Cannon

The Cannon is a gold and silver mine located in Chelan county, Washington.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Cannon

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver

Location

State: Washington
County: Chelan
District: Wenatchee

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

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: Rhyodacite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Eocene

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold
Ore: Stibnite
Ore: Acanthite
Ore: Naumannite
Ore: Electrum
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Hessite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Pyrargyrite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Chalcedony
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Marcasite
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Production): THE CANNON MINE BEGAN PRODUCTION IN THE MID 1980'S AND IS PRODUCING TODAY (1990). PRODUCTION FOR 1989 WAS 150,420 OZ. AU, AND 302,731 OZ. OF AG (JOSESPH, 1990, P. 19).

Comment (Location): ON THE WEST SIDE OF SQUILLCHUCK CREEK

Comment (Workings): THIS DEPOSIT IS CURRENTLY (1990) BEING MINED AS A JOINT VENTURE PROJECT OF ASAMERA MINERALS INC. AND BREAKWATER RESOURCES LTD.

Comment (Geology): HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION, PARTICULARLY SILICIFICATION IS IMPORTANT IN ORE LOCALIZATION. OTHER ALTERATION MINERALS INCLUDE SERICITE, ARGILLIC MINERALS, POTASSIUM SILICATES, AND CHLORITE. MINERALIZATION IS FOUND IN ZONE OF PERVASIVE AND VEIN-CONTROLLED SILICIFICATION AND POTASSIUM SILICATE ALTERATION. INTERMEDIATE ARGILLIC ALTERATION ZONES CAP THE MINERALIZATION. MIXED LAYER ILLITE/SMECITE GRADES OUTWARD INTO SMECITE.

Comment (Deposit): AN UNNAMED SANDSTONE UNIT AND THE OVERLYING EOCENE CHUMSTICK FORMATION HOST MINERALIZATION AT THE CANNON MINE. MINERALIZTION OCCURS IN FAVORABLY ALTERED (COMMONLY SILICIFIED) HORIZONES OF THESE TERIARY (EOCENE?) ARKOSIC SANDSTONE UNITS (OTT, 1988, P. 20-23). ORE BODIES EXTEND FROM THE SURFACE TO DEOTHS OF MORE THAN 900 FT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

References

Reference (Deposit): WDGER OFR 90-18.

Reference (Deposit): PATTON, T.C.; CHENEY, E.S., 1971, L-D GOLD MINE, WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON-NEW STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION AND ITS UTILIZATION IN FUTURE EXPLORATION:SOCIETY OF MINING ENGINEERS OF AIME TRANSACTIONS, V. 250, NO. 1, P. 6-11.

Reference (Deposit): UNPUBLISHED INFORMATION GAINED FROM A TOUR OF THE CANNON MINE LEAD BY MINE GEOLOGIST M. MELHORN ON JULY 25, 1990, IS SUPPLEMENTED THE PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS OF THE CANNON MINE GEOLOGY.

Reference (Deposit): GRESENS, R.L., 1983, GEOLOGY OF THE WENATCHEE AND MONITOR QUADRANGLES, CHELAN AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES BULLETIN 75, 75 P., 3 PL.

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, 67P.

Reference (Deposit): JOSEPH, N.L., 1990, MINERAL INDUSTRY NEWS NOTES: WASHINGTON GEOLOGIC NEWSLETTER, V. 18, NO. 2, P. 19-20.

Reference (Deposit): OTT, L.E., 1988, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE WENATCHEE MINING DISTRICT, CHELAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON: UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY THESIS, 270P., 2 PL.

Reference (Deposit): OTT, L.E.; GROODY, DIANE; FOLLIS, E.L.; SIEMS, P.L., 1986, STRATIGRAPHY, STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, ORE MINERALOGY AND HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION AT THE CANNON MINE, CHELAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON, U.S.A. IN MCDONALD, A.J., EDITOR, GOLD '86-AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF GOLD DEPOSITS-PROCEEDINGS VOLUME:GOLD '86 [TORONTO, ONT.], P. 425-435

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