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MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
 
Table 2.—Value of mineral production in Washington, by counties 
 
 
 
(Thousands) 
County 
1966 
1967 
Minerals produced in 1967 in order of value 
Adams                
Asotin                
Benton                
$284 W 
1,882 
$395 W 
534 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Sand and gravel. 
Sand and gravel, stone. 
Chelan                
Clallarn                
Clark                 
Columbia              
W 
291 
1,320 
1,825 
496 
143 
881 
6,262 
Stone, sand and gravel, gold, pumice, silver, lead. 
Sand and gravel. 
Stone, sand and gravel, clays. 
Sand and gravel, stone. 
Cowlitz                
Douglas               
Ferry                 
Franklin               
Garfield               
Grant                 
Grays Harbor           
Island                 
408 
321 
W 
783 
333 
1,983 
695 
89 
391 
149 
W 
2,240 
2,029 
2,185 
925 
160 
Sand and gravel, stone, clays. Do. 
Gold, silver, stone. 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Do. 
Diatomite, sand and gravel, lime, stone. Sand and gravel, stone. 
Do. 
Jefferson               
King                 
Kitsap                
Kittitas               
Klickitat               
Lewis                 
Lincoln                
Mason                
Okanogan              
Pacific                
W 
16,745 
276 
655 
924 
510 
182 
 2 
240 
349 
W 
17,570 
334 
1,903 
663 
466 
207 
86 
327 
211 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Cement, sand and gravel, stone, coal, clays, peat. 
Sand and gravel, peat, stone. 
Sand and gravel, stone, pumice. 
Sand and gravel, carbon dioxide, stone. 
Stone, sand and gravel, coal, clays. 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Sand and gravel, stone. 
Sand and gravel, stone, gypsum, tungsten. 
Stone. 
Pend Oreille            
Pierce                 
7,880 
5,601 
4,728 
4,954 
Cement, zinc, lead, stone, sand and gravel, silver, copper. Sand and gravel,
lime, stone, clays, peat. 
San Juan              
Skagit                
Skamania              
W 
6,940 
W 
W 
5,059 
165 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Cement, olivine, stone, sand and gravel, soapstone, barite. 
Stone, sand and gravel, gold, silver. 
Snohornish             
2 963 
3,066 
Sand and gravel, stone, peat, clays. 
Spokane               
Stevens                
 
Thurston              
Wahkiakum            
5,707 
6,685 
 
352 
145 
3,276 
W 
 
305 
(1) 
Sand and gravel, cement, stone, clays, peat. Zinc, stone, magnesite, lead,
sand and gravel, silver, copper, clays, gold. 
Sand and gravel, coal, peat, stone. 
Sand and gravel. 
Walla Walla            
1,982 
676 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Whatcom              
Whitman              
Yakima               
Undistributed 2____ -   
W 
2,081 
2,434 
16,279 
W 
983 
1,264 
19,034 
Cement, stone, sand and gravel, clays. 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Sand and gravel, lime, stone. 
Total            
89,096 
82,067 
 
 ' Revised. W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential
data. 
 1 Less than 3~ unit. 
 2 Includes value of mineral production that cannot be assigned to specific
counties and values indicated by symbol W. 
 
a mill will be constructed with a capacity of 3,000 to 4,000 tons per day.
Another firm, North Star Uranium, Inc., leased 360 acres across the Spokane
River from the area being developed by Western Nuclear, Inc. 
 A comprehensive survey of mineral exploration in the State was presented
by the Division of Mines and Geology, Washington Department of Natural Resources,
at the 73d Annual Convention of the Northwest Mining Association held in
Spokane. In addition to reviewing mineral activity in each county, the survey
discussed the exploration done by the U.S. Geological Survey on the Continental
Shelf, off the coast of Washington. The purpose of the offshore exploration
was to 
find clues to deposits of heavy metals, mainly gold, and to provide basic
geologic data for use by private industry in its search for mineral resources.
Geologic and geophysical studies, including acoustical profiling, magnetic
' surveys, and dredge and core sampling, were conducted from a University
of Washington research vessel, under a contract with the U.S. Geological
Survey; the contract also included work in the Bering Sea, off the coast
of Alaska. 
 Atlantic Richfield Co. received the contract to operate the Atomic Energy
Commission's chemical processing complex at the Hanford plant near Richland.
The complex includes processing plants for separating plutonium and uranium
from irradiated reactor fuel, waste management