Western King Prospect

Prospect in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011572
MRDS ID D006588
MAS/MILS ID 0160790061
Record type Site
Current site name Western King Prospect
Alternate or previous names Stang Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.29963, 47.42316 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 8 MI. S20W FROM PINEHURST ID.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shoshone(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Twin Crags(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saint Maries(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spokane(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Coeur d'Alene(hydrologic unit)

Spokane(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management ID)

Bureau of Land Management ID BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Shoshone

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 047N 001E 14 C Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • Located Along the W Fk. of Pine Creek

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue

Analytical data

Result FOUR SAMPLES SHOWED 28.9%, 20.0%, 20.7% AND 32.8% MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.29963, 47.42316

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 12.19M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Coeurd'Alene District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Conrad Stang, R.L. Brainard, W.T. Schmidt, B.F. Schmidt, R.H. Kingsbury, And O.A. Scott

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 66.14M

Comments on the workings information

  • One 117 Ft Adit and One 100 Ft Adit

Comments on development

  • 15 Unpatented Claims Were Held (1943)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Commodity Files, USGS, Spokane W

  • Deposit

    USBM, n.d., WFOC MPF-41.008

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 3 Veins Probably A Few Hundred Feet In Length Crop Out, One Is N54w, Vertical, Another N74w, 72n, and the Third Strikes Nw

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-80 Lewis, Reed S. (Orris, Greta J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 13-MAR-95 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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