Grubstake No. 2 Claim

Occurrence in Lemhi county in Idaho, United States with commodities Zinc, Gold
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. 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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071591
MRDS ID W015071
MAS/MILS ID 0160590605
Record type Site
Current site name Grubstake No. 2 Claim
Alternate or previous names Continental, Fereaco

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.29063, 45.36048 (WGS84)
Elevation 1250
Relative position 1.25 MI SW OF SHOUP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lemhi(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pine Creek Rapids(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 18E 36 Idaho
Boise 023N 018E 01 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • Just SE Grubstake No. 1 Claim

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Muscovite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Leaching

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Idaho Batholith-Granite;Dike-Granite
    Rock description Idaho Batholith-Granite;Dike-Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.29063, 45.36048

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 79 DEG E
    Dip 72 DEG S
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 106.68M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Jointing

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Mackinaw District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Salmon National Forest
Ownership category National Primitive Area
Area name Idaho Primitive Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Gray, F. A., 1927, Ore Deposits Of The Mineral Hill District, Lemhi County, Idaho: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Univ. Of Minnesota, Ph D Thesis

  • Deposit

    Mines And Prospects Of The Elk City Quad., IBMG Mines And Prospects Map Series, V.E. Mitchell, Et Al.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1977 Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 14-NOV-1983 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.