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Fire Fly Claim

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. 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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071982
MRDS ID W015781
Record type Site
Current site name Fire Fly Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.92671, 44.86269 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 23 MI S OF SALMON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lemhi(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Allison Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Leadore(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dubois(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

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 018N 021E 25 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • 2 MI WSW OF BIRTHDAY CLAIM

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Limonite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Lemhi Quartzite-Phyllitic Quartzite
    Rock description Lemhi Quartzite-Phyllitic Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.92671, 44.86269
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Width 0.03M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Cleavage In Quartzite

Comments on the geologic information

  • CLEAVAGE TRENDS N 60 DEG W AND DIPS 40 DEG SW

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1955
Discoverer Jess Hutchinson, Tony Nardella, Clyde Goodwin

Mining district

District name Mckim Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • CLAIM IS ON OLDER WORKINGS, CAVED ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SOREGAROLI, A. E., 1961, GEOLOGY OF THE MCKIM CREEK AREA, LEMHI COUNTY, IDAHO: MOSCOW, IDAHO, UNIV. OF IDAHO, M.S. THESIS, P. 49

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey

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