Helen Zucker Prospect

Prospect in Washington county in Idaho, United States with commodity Mercury
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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095482
MRDS ID M055218
MAS/MILS ID 0160870135
Record type Site
Current site name Helen Zucker Prospect
Alternate or previous names Zucker Property, Parker Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.71569, 44.24847 (WGS84)
Elevation 945
Relative position LOCATED 11 MI. EAST OF WEISER.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washington(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Holland Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Weiser(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Weiser(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle 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 Washington

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 011N 003W 32 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • ADJOINS THE IDAHO - ALMADEN MINE ON THE NORTHWEST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Opal Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Opalitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Rock unit name Columbia River Basalt
    Rock description Columbia River Basalt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Payette Formation-Sandstone
    Rock description Payette Formation-Sandstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.71569, 44.24847

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Broad Anticline Of Nw Trend

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET , IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures, Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • OPALITE IN SANDSTONE BOULDERS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1942

Mining district

District name Weiser

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Zucker Mine

Comments on the workings information

  • PROPERTY CONSISTS OF SHALLOW PITS, SHAFTS, TUNNELS.

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 6 UNPATENTED CLAIMS ( 1943 )

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MERCURY IN IDAHO, 1965, USBM IC 8252

  • Deposit

    ROSS, C. P., 1956 , QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS NEAR WEISER, WASHINGTON COUNTY, IDAHO: USGS BULL. 1042-D, P. 99 - 100 .

  • Deposit

    1941 RECON C. P. ROSS AND C. H. DANE, BULL. 1042-

  • Deposit

    MINES AND PROSPECTS OF THE BAKER QUAD., IBMG MINES AND PROSPECTS MAP SERIES, VE MITCHELL, ET AL.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1974 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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