Mine detail: Cowlitz Clay

Previously called 'Cowlitz High Alumina ClayCowlitz Kaolin'

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Location

Lat / long: 46.3515, -122.84201

Resource(B)

Tertiary: Titanium, Water, Free, Aluminum, Iron, Silica
Other material: Beidellite, Feldspar, Gibbsite, Halloysite, Hematite, Ilmenite, Kaolinite, Limonite, Mica, Montmorillonite, Nontronite, Quartz, Siderite
Discovery year: 1935

Production

Operation type: Surface
Development status: Prospect
First production started: 1937

Geology

References

MAS530150002
DEP10180398
Reference{Deposit:: ALLEN, V.T. SEDIMENTARY AND VOLCANIC PROCESSES IN THE}{Deposit:: FORMATION OF HIGH-ALUMINA CLAY. ECON. GEOL., V. 41, NO.}{Deposit:: 2. 1946, PP. 124-138.}{Deposit:: GLOVER, S.L. CLAYS AND SHALES OF WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON}{Deposit:: DIV. GEOL. BULL. 24, 1941, 368 PP.}{Deposit:: HOLBROOK, W.F. AND L.A. YERKES. EXTRACTION OF ALUMINA FROM}{Deposit:: FERRUGINOUS-BAUXITE BY A DOUBLE-LEACH PROCESS.}{Deposit:: BUMINES REPT. OF INV. 6280, 1963, 20 PP.}{Deposit:: PARKMAN, H.C. SULPHURIC ACID LEACHING OF WASHINGTON CLAYS}{Deposit:: FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ALUMINA AND ALUMINUM METAL. THE}{Deposit:: STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON, SCH. MINES AND GEOL. BULL.}{Deposit:: E, 1935, 51 PP.}{Deposit:: POPOFF, C.C. COWLITZ CLAY DEPOSITS NEAR CASTLE ROCK, WASH.}{Deposit:: BUMINES REPT. OF INV. 5157, 1955, 60 PP.}{Deposit:: REDLICH, O., M.F. ADAMS, AND R.O. DHONDT. EXTRACTION OF}{Deposit:: ALUMINA FROM CLAY (IN THREE PARTS). PART III. BENEFI-}{Deposit:: CIATION OF CLAY BY AIR SEPARATION. THE STATE COLLEGE OF}{Deposit:: WASHINGTON, DEPT. CHEM. AND CHEM. ENG. RES. PROJECT 34.}{Deposit:: BULL. T-3, 1943, 10 PP.}{Deposit:: ROBERTS, A.E. GEOLOGY AND COAL RESOURCES OF THE}{Deposit:: TOLEDO-CASTLE ROCK DISTRICT, COWLITZ AND LEWIS}{Deposit:: COUNTIES, WASH. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1062, 1958, 71 PP.}{Deposit:: SEYFRIED, W.R. THE AMMONIUM SULPHATE PROCESS FOR THE}{Deposit:: EXTRACTION OF ALUMINA FROM CLAY AND ITS APPLICATION IN}{Deposit:: A PLANT AT SALEM, OREGON. AIME TECH. PAPER 2473, 1948,}{Deposit:: 12 PP.}{Deposit:: SNOEBERGER, D., AND J. WEGNER. PROCESS DEVELOPMENT FOR}{Deposit:: PRODUCTION OF ALUMINUM SULFATE BY SULFITE-SULFATE}{Deposit:: LEACHING PROCESS FROM CASTLE ROCK CLAY. SPOKANE}{Deposit:: ALUMINUM CO., 1946, 16 PP.}{Deposit:: WEAVER, C.E. THE TERTIARY FORMATIONS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON.}{Deposit:: WASHINGTON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 13, 1916, 327 PP.}
ReporterLindsey, David S.