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Snowdrift Claim

Past Producer in Lemhi county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Mica, REE, Thorium, 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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071459
MRDS ID W014861
MAS/MILS ID 0160590033
Record type Site
Current site name Snowdrift Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.23593, 45.40989 (WGS84)
Elevation 1387
Relative position 3 MI. E. OF SHOUP, IDAHO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lemhi(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ulysses(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bighorn Crags(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Elk City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Salmon-Panther(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 Lemhi

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 024N 019E 09,16 W2 (09) Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • On E. Side Of Small, Unnamed Gulch

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Mica Tertiary
REE Critical Tertiary
Thorium Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Mica Ore

Analytical data

Result GEIGER COUNTER READINGS 2 - 5 TIMES BACKGROUND

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Belt Supergroup
    Rock description Belt Supergroup-Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.23593, 45.40989
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 75 DEG W
    Dip 70 DEG NE
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 914.4M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name North Fork - Shoup District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Salmon National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner G. E. Shoup

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 4.57M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Trites, A. E., And Tooker, E. W., 1953, Uranium And Thorium Deposits In East-Central Idaho, Southwestern Montana: USGS Bulletin 988-H, P. 169 - 7

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Duncan, Daniel G. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 13-OCT-1990 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.

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