Mine detail: Kaaba

Previously called 'CaabaKaaba-Texas;'

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Location

Lat / long:

48.95428, -119.65257

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead, Silver, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Zinc, Copper, Gold
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Molybdenite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Calcite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host type:	Diorite
Structure:	The Similkameen Batholith Is A Concentrically Zoned Plutonic Suite With Early Mafic Alkalic Rocks Bordering And Being Intruded By Calc-Alkaline Granitic Rocks. The Undeformed Body Is On The Upper Plate Of The Okanogan Valley Fault (Buddington And Burmester, 1990).

References

MRDS	SP00235
DEP	10055998
Reference	{Deposit:: BUDDINGTON, A.M.; BURMESTER, R.F., 1990, THE SIMILKAMEEN BATHOLITH: A MID-JURASSIC, POST-TECTONIC COMPLEX IN THE QUESNEL TERRANE, NORTH-CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND SOUTH-CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA [ABSTRACT]: GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ABSTRACTS WITH PROGRAMS, V. 22, NO. 3, P. 10-11.}{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.}{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.}{Deposit:: MOEN, W.S., 1976, SILVER OCCURRENCES OF WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF GEOLOGY AND EARTH RESOURCES BULLETIN 69, 188 P.}{Deposit:: PATTY, E.N., 1921, THE METAL MINES OF WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 23, 366 P.}{Deposit:: RINEHART, C.D.; FOX, K.F., JR., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE LOOMIS QUADRANGLE, OKANOGAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 64, 124 P., 3 PL.}
Reporter	Berger, Mary A., Frank, Dave