New Snowbird

Past Producer in Valley county in Idaho, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Production statistics
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071595
MRDS ID W015076
Record type Site
Current site name New Snowbird
Alternate or previous names Mc Rae Mine, Red Bluff
Related records 10193406

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.40486, 45.16268 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438
Relative position 5 MI NW OF BIG CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Valley(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wolf Fang Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warren(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Elk City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Middle Fork Salmon(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Payette 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 021N 009E 18 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • LIES BETWEEN RED BLUFF & SNOWBIRD MINES; BETWEEN NORTH AND MIDDLE FORKS OF SMITH CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE HUEBNERITE: SCHEELITE RATIO IS 2:1.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Huebnerite Ore
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericite, Silicification

Analytical data

Result MILLHEADS AVG. 0.98% WO3
Result SURFACE ASSAYS YIELD 1.75% WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Rock unit name Profile Gap-Smith Creek Dike Swarm-Dacite
    Rock description Profile Gap-Smith Creek Dike Swarm-Dacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Cret Quartz-Feldspar Gneiss
    Rock description Cret Quartz-Feldspar Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.40486, 45.16268

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, PODS
    Strike N 12 DEG W
    Dip STEEPLY E
    Width 2.13M

Comments on the geologic information

  • KIRKPATRICK (1974) IS UNSURE OF AGE OF QUARTZ - FELDSPAR GNEISS, BELIEVING IT IS BETWEEN PRECAMBRIAN AND CRETACEOUS; OTHER PRIOR AUTHORS HAD LABELED THIS ROCK AS CRETACEOUS GRANITIC ROCKS OF THE IDAHO BATHOLITH.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1942
Year of first production 1942

Mining district

District name Edwardsburg District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Payette National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Mc Rae Tungsten Corp.
  • Type Owner
    Owner W. And H. Hollingsworth

Production statistics

  • Year 1954
    Period 1942-1954
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^1 % Wo4
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Tungsten Tungsten 1wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • FIGURES INCLUDE MINOR PRODUCTION FROM RED BLUFF AND SNOWBIRD MINES

Comments on development

  • 2 GROUPS OF CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COOK, E. F., 1956, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO, IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 108, P. 32

  • Deposit

    KIRKPATRICK, G. E., 1974, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BIG CREEK AREA, VALLEY AND IDAHO COUNTIES, IDAHO: MOSCOW, IDAHO, UNIV. OF IDAHO, M.S. THESIS, P. 45-46.

  • Deposit

    GRINER, W. C., 1975, SEVENTY - FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF IDAHO FOR 1973 - 1974, 98 P.

  • Deposit

    1956 RECON IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 108

  • Deposit

    1975 COMPILE STATE MINE INSPECTOR'S ANNUAL REPORT

  • Production

    COOK, E. F., 1956, IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 108, P. 32

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1975 Steigner, William D.; Miller, Pat U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1993 Cookro, Terry U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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