55. Quartz: Denny Mountain, Washington
Display Case from 2008 Tucson Gem & Mineral Show
by Joe GeorgeA fantastic and mysterious mineral locality still looms
in the backwoods of the Pacific Northwest.
DENNY MOUNTAIN. (King County, Washington, USA)
The Denny Mountain mineral deposit may have been discovered
by local Native Americans. The earliest written records
indicate that the Denny iron claim was first staked as a
purported deposit of iron ore around the time that
Washington gained statehood in 1889.
One of the claimants, A. O. Denny, became the mountain's namesake.
The nearby city of Kirkland is said to have been founded
as a mill site to process the Denny Mountain ore.
The surface workings (there are no underground workings)
are situated at an altitude of around 4000 feet,
on the southwest side of the peak, in a steep and dangerous canyon.
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