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Whale Mine

Past Producer in Custer county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071066
MRDS ID W014270
MAS/MILS ID 0160370262
Record type Site
Current site name Whale Mine
Alternate or previous names Mulcahy

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.75173, 44.44178 (WGS84)
Elevation 2591
Relative position 25 3/4 MI WSW OF CHALLIS; 5.5 MI N OF BONANZA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Jordan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

White Cloud Peaks(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Salmon(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Salmon-Challis National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 013N 015E 19 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • NW. Jesse James, On First Tributary of Jordan Creek Above Golden Sunbeam

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitized

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Challis Volcanics-Andesitic Tuffs;Casto Volcanics-Rhyolite Porphyry
    Rock description Challis Volcanics-Andesitic Tuffs;Casto Volcanics-Rhyolite Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.75173, 44.44178
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 304.8M
    Width 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Zone Of Mineralized Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • Fractures Trend N 10 Deg E - N 60 Deg E and Less Commonly N - NW.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Yankee Fork District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Challis National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Sunbeam, Inc.

Comments on the workings information

  • Shallow Cuts, Tunnels, Several Trenches

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Anderson, A. L., 1949, Silver - Gold Deposits Of The Yankee Fork District, Custer County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 83, 37 P

  • Production

    Anderson, A. L., 1949, Ida. Bureau Of Mines & Geol. Pamphlet 83, P. 34.

  • Deposit

    Jacobs, M.H., 1902, Report Of The Mining Districts Of Idaho For The Year 1901, P. 24-26.

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau Of Mines Open-File Report MLA 6-91, 1991, Table A-3, No. 469, P. 217.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 05-NOV-1992 McHugh, Edward L. U.S. Bureau of Mines

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