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Pattee Creek Workings

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071594
MRDS ID W015075
MAS/MILS ID 0160590664
Record type Site
Current site name Pattee Creek Workings

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.56118, 45.00211 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 8 MI SE BAKER, IDAHO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lemhi(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goldstone Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salmon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lemhi(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 Lemhi

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 019N 024E 01 NWSW Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • Near Abandoned Ranch On Pattee Creek, 4 Mi From Its Confluence With Lemhi River ; Info From Land.St :(1978)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization
  • (Local) Stains

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Yellowjacket Formation
    Rock description Yellowjacket
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.56118, 45.00211
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 55 E
    Dip 12 SE
    Thickness 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • Original alteration entry:
    Local - Sericitization, Cu And Fe - Stains
  • Original ore control entry:
    Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Mcdevitt District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Salmon National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 Short Adits

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Sharp, W. N., And Cavendar, W. S., 1962, Geology And Thorium - Bearing Deposits Of The Lemhi Pass Area, Lemhi County, Idaho, And Beaverhead County, Montana: USGS Bull 1126, 76 P

  • Deposit

    Mines And Prospect Of The Dillon Quad, IBMG Mines And Prospect Map Series, V.E. Mitchell, Et Al.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1977 Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1983 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) 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.

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