Kid Island Clay Deposit

Occurrence in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodity Clay
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011565
MRDS ID D006578
Record type Site
Current site name Kid Island Clay Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.80526, 47.65016 (WGS84)
Elevation 649
Relative position 3 MILES S40W FROM COEURD'ALENE IDAHO.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kootenai(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Coeur D'Alene(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Coeur D'Alene(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spokane(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Coeur d'Alene Lake(hydrologic unit)

Spokane(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Shoshone

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 050N 004W 26;35 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ALONG THE SHORE OF COEURD'ALENE LAKE IN KID ISLAND BAY

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.80526, 47.65016

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Interbed In Columbia River Basalts

Comments on the geologic information

  • CLAY IS GREYISH WHITE, PLASTIC AND STICKY

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COMMODITY FILES, USGS, SPOKANE, WA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OVERLYING BASALT AND ADJACENT LAKE WOULD MAKE MINING CONDITIONS UNFAVORABLE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1980 Lewis, Reed S. (Orris, Greta J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.