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Riley Prospect

Occurrence in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodity Copper
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  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 10012598
MRDS ID D008296
Record type Site
Current site name Riley Prospect
Related records 10241612

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.14932, 47.00404 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 3.75 MILES DUE SOUTH OF CASCADE PEAK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shoshone(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sherlock Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Joe(hydrologic unit)

Spokane(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Idaho Panhandle National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Shoshone

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 042N 010E 12 NW Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR THE HEADWATERS OF BOSTONIAN CREEK AT THE NORTHERN EDGE OF CLEARWATER NATIONAL FOREST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Prichard Formation
    Rock description Prichard Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) Lower Missoula Group.
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N0E
    Dip 90
    Width 0.46M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name St. Joe District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. T. Prickett
    First year 1952

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 22.25M

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE 73 FT ADIT AND A FEW OPEN CUTS ARE PRESENT.

Comments on development

  • THE PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 11 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY COMMODITY FILES, SPOKANE, WA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL VEINS 1 IN TO 18 IN OCCUR BUT THEY SHOW LITTLE MINERALIZATION EXCEPT PYRITE. ONLY ONE 18 IN VEIN CONTAINS VERY MINOR AMOUNT OF CHALCOPYRITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1980 Lewis, Reed S. (Orris, Greta J.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1992 Frank, Dave U.S. Geological Survey

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