Horsefly Prospect

Occurrence in Valley county in Idaho, United States with commodity Tungsten
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071086
MRDS ID W014300
Record type Site
Current site name Horsefly Prospect
Related records 10144585

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.60456, 44.37878 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Relative position 27 MI SE OF CASCADE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Valley(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bernard Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Deadwood River(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Payette(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Boise 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 Valley

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 012N 007E 15 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • 4 MI NE DEADWOOD DAM

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Wolframite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Idaho Batholith-Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Idaho Batholith-Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.60456, 44.37878

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Deadwood District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Boise National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COOK, E. F., 1956, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH - CENTRAL IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 108, 40 P

  • Deposit

    1956 RECON IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 10

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1976 Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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