Mine detail: Mackinaw

Previously called 'Weden Creek'

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Location

Lat / long: 47.9812, -121.44315

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Nickel
Secondary: Cobalt
Tertiary: Gold, Silver, Vanadium, Uranium, Arsenic
Ore: Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chloanthite, Chrysocolla, Cubanite, Erythrite, Garnierite, Gold, Magnetite, Malachite, Niccolite, Pentlandite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Calcite, Quartz, Serpentine
Orebody form: LENSES, DISSEMINATED
Discovery year: 1900

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:Eastern Melange Belt;Swauk Formation
Host type:Arkose
Tectonic:Cascade Volcanic Arc

References

MRDSW001168
DEP10068218
Reference{Deposit:: COLE, J.W., 1944, MACKINAW METALS MINE, SNOHOMICH COUNTY, WASHINGTON: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES WAR MINERALS REPORT 156, 11 P.}{Deposit:: MILTON, CHARLES, AND MILTON, D.J., 1958, NICKEL-GOLD ORE OF THE MACKINAW MINE, SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WASHINGTON: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 53, NO. 4, P. 426-447.}{Deposit:: CORNWALL, H.R., 1966, NICKEL DEPOSITS OF NORTH AMERICA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1223, P. 56-57.}{Deposit:: HUNTTING, M.T., 1956, INVENTORY OF WASHINGTON MINERALS - PART II, METALLIC MINERALS: WASHINGTON DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 37, V. 1, P. 87.}{Deposit:: TABOR, R.W., FRIZZELL, V.A., JR., BOOTH, D.B., WHETTEN, J.T., WAITT, R.B., JR., AND 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, SCALE1:100,000.}{Reserve-Resource:: UNPUB. COBALT REPORT}
ReporterCoury, Anny B., Peterson, Jocelyn A.