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Floodwood Creek Prospect

Occurrence in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead
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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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078336
MRDS ID W026621
Record type Site
Current site name Floodwood Creek Prospect
Related records 10168895

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.94542, 47.03877 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position 16 MI SSE OF AVERY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shoshone(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Widow Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower North Fork Clearwater(hydrologic unit)

Clearwater(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 Shoshone

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 043N 004E 27 SW OF SW OF NE Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Bornite Unknown
Chalcopyrite Unknown

Analytical data

Result AVERAGE SAMPLE YIELDED $2.48 IN AU, AG, CU, AND PB ( 1911 PRICES ). PICKED SAMPLE HAD TRACE AU, 0.8 OZ AG, 2.1 % CU.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.94542, 47.03877
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, LENTICULAR
    Strike NE - SW
    Dip N
    Length 152.4M
    Width 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE HOST ROCK IS CRUMPLED INJECTION GNEISS COMPOSED OF ALTERNATING THIN LAYERS OF DARK MICA SCHIST AND WHITE PEGMATITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name St. Joe District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 10.97M
    Overall depth 3.05M
    Overall length 9.14M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J. T., 1911 , GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION OF THE UPPER ST. JOE RIVER BASIN, IDAHO: USGS BULL. 470 , P. 39 - 61

  • Deposit

    COLLIER, A. J., 1905 , ORE DEPOSITS IN THE ST. JOE RIVER BASIN, IDAHO: USGS BULL. 285 , P. 136

  • Deposit

    1905 RECON A. J. COLLIER, BULL. 285

  • Deposit

    1911 OTHER J. T. PARDEE, BULL. 470

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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