Kelly Bros. Prospect

Occurrence in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodity 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. 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. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10073415
MRDS ID W019486
Record type Site
Current site name Kelly Bros. Prospect
Related records 10208193

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.01492, 47.24817 (WGS84)
Elevation 762
Relative position 8.5 MI E OF CALDER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shoshone(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Marble Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saint Maries(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spokane(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Joe(hydrologic unit)

Spokane(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Shoshone

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 045N 004E 18 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • 1 MI E OF CONFLUENCE OF MARBLE CR. AND ST. JOE RIVER

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Prichard Form.-Quartzite;Revett Quartzite
    Rock description Prichard Form.-Quartzite;Revett Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.01492, 47.24817

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS
    Width 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones; Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Coeur D'Alene District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HAYES, C. W., AND LINDGREN, W., 1911 , CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY: USGS BULL. 470 , P. 39 - 61

  • Deposit

    WILSON, R. S., 1963 , GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION RECONNAISSANCE OF THE AVERY AREA, IDAHO: UNIV. OF IDAHO, M. S. THESIS, 81 P.

  • Deposit

    1911 OTHER HAYES AND LINDGREN, BULL. 47

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MAY BE QUARTZ DIFFERENTIATION FROM OR AN END PRODUCT OF AN APLITE DIKE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1974 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.