Specimen claim located 3 miles north of North Bend. It worked a breccia body in volcanic rock.
Refs.:
- Mineral. Record 20(5): 390
- Minerals Of Washington, B. Cannon, 1975
- Rocks and Minerals 66:6, 468-469
The locality is most commonly and correctly known as the Bald Hornet claim.
This locality is most definitely NOT the Blue Mountain Saddle tourmailine deposit, though the Blue Mountain Saddle deposit does host bundles of acicular tourmaline which show an x-ray spectrum similar to, but with slightly more iron than the Bald Hornet material.
The deposits occur in highly sericitized Miocene granodiorite breccias.
In my opinion, the West boundary of the Bald Hornet Japan law quartz twin and luinaite locality lies just to the West of the West boundary of the Bald Hornet #1 claim.
In addition to the Bald Hornet and Blue Mountain Saddle localities, several other tourmaline localities exist in the nearly immediate area. The most important of which is the Crystal Palace deposit which was staked and recorded in the King County Mining Index in the early 1890s, and described as adjoining, though not contiquous to the trend of the Bald Hornet group.
The Bald Hornet claims were among the earliest patented mining claims located in King County. In the 1970s they were owned by the late Henry J. Wrightsman. Later they were bought by Storm Stevenson who built a cabin on one of the claims. Recently the claims were sold to the State of Washington and became part of the Mount Si Natural Resource Conservation Area.
Collecting of mineral specimens is restricted under the regulations in the NCRA.
Bart Cannon
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13 entries listed. 6 valid minerals.
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