Turtle Mine

Past Producer in Custer county in Idaho, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Zinc
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071117
MRDS ID W014341
MAS/MILS ID 160370341
Record type Site
Current site name Turtle Mine
Alternate or previous names No Name Mine, Turtley

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.3075, 44.37 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position 9 MI NE CLAYTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bald Mountain(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

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 Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 012N 018E 14 NW Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result RANDOM SAMPLES ASSAYED $10 - 60 AG, $86 PB

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Bayhorse Dolomite; Ramshorn Slate
    Rock description Bayhorse Dolomite;Ramshorn Slate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.3075, 44.37

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR BUNCHES, LENSES
    Dip 15 DEG S

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Follows Joints, Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Bayhorse District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Bolton, William B. And Donner, Roy
  • Type Owner
    Owner Bolton, William B.

Comments on the production information

  • Some Production Prior To 1919

Comments on the workings information

  • Several Old Tunnels, Bulldozer Cuts

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Ross, C. P., 1937, Geology And Ore Deposits Of The Bayhorse Region, Custer County, Idaho: USGS Bull. 877, 161 P.

  • Deposit

    Staley, W. W., 1962, No Name Mine: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Open - File Rept.

  • Deposit

    Campbell, A., 1947, Forty - Eighth Annual Report Of The Mining Industry Of Idaho For The Year 1946

  • Deposit

    1937 Geolmap Ross, C. P., Bull. 877

  • Deposit

    1962 Recon Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Open - File Rept.

  • Production

    Items 8 - 12, Ross, C. P., 1937, USGS Bull. 877, 161 P.; Item 1, Campbell, A., 1947, 48th Annual Report, P. 240.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1976-07-01 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.

External references