PEND OREILLE & GRANDVIEW MINES
near Metaline Falls, Pend Oreille County, Washington, USA
LOCALITY IMAGES


GEOLOGY
Metaline Formation - Cambro-Ordivician (~500 Ma [millions of years ago]). The Metaline Formation is predominately a carbonate unit approximately 1800 meters thick extending from Washington state to British Columbia, Canada. The geology of the Pend Oreille Mine consists of a carbonate (dolomite) hosted Pb-Zn (lead-zinc) deposit.

MINERALS
*Barite-
BaSO4
*Calcite-
CaCO3
*Galena-
PbS
*Palygorskite-
(Mg,Al)2Si4O10(OH) . 4(H2O)
*Pyrite-
FeS2
*Pyrobitumen-
hydrocarbon mineraloid
*Pyromorphite-
Pb5(PO4)3Cl
*Quartz-
SiO2
Smithsonite-
ZnCO3
*Sphalerite-
ZnS

* photographed
 
CALCITE
 on PALYGORSKITE
Pend Oreille Mine
 
CALCITE
 with PALYGORSKITE
Pend Oreille Mine
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BARITE
 on CALCITE
Pend Oreille Mine
 
BARITE
 on PALYGORSKITE
Pend Oreille Mine
 
CALCITE
 with PALYGORSKITE
inclusion
Pend Oreille Mine
 
CALCITE
 with PALYGORSKITE
Pend Oreille Mine
 
CALCITE
 with PALYGORSKITE
and minor PYRITE
Pend Oreille Mine

 
GALENA
 on CALCITE
Pend Oreille Mine
 
PALYGORSKITE
Pend Oreille Mine
 
Filiform PYRITE
Pend Oreille Mine
 
PYROBITUMEN
(hydrocarbon mineraloid)
Pend Oreille Mine
 
QUARTZ
 with inclusion
Pend Oreille Mine
 
PYROMORPHITE
Grandview Mine
 
SPHALERITE
Pend Oreille Mine