Quartz Creek

The Quartz Creek is a copper, gold, silver, and molybdenum mine located in King county, Washington.

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Mine Info

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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

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Holdings

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Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

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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

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Alterations

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Rocks

Name: Tonalite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Miocene

Analytical Data

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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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