Lightning Upper Pit Mine

Past Producer in Custer county in Idaho, United States with commodities Uranium, Antimony
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. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105688
MRDS ID W014193
MAS/MILS ID 0160370346
Record type Site
Current site name Lightning Upper Pit Mine
Alternate or previous names Little Bill Mine, Copperite

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.87623, 44.31628 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042
Relative position 2.5 MI NE OF POTATO MTN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Basin Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

White Cloud Peaks(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Salmon(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Salmon-Challis 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 Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 011N 013E 01 NE Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • 400 Ft SE of Lightning No 1 Adit.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Antimony Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pitchblende Ore
Stibnite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Idaho Batholith-Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Idaho Batholith-Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.87623, 44.31628

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Idaho Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faulting And Fracturing.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 60 DEG W
    Dip 70 DEG NE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Along Fault Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • Fault Zone Attitude N 60 Deg W 70 Deg NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Challis National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Vitro Idaho Minerals Corp.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Bill Brooks, Melvin Peterson

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.105HA
    Overall length 45.72M
    Overall width 24.38M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Choate, Raoul, 1962, Geology And Ore Deposits Of The Stanley Area: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 126, 120 P

  • Deposit

    Kern, B.F., State Of Idaho Pamphlet No. 117, P. 24-25

  • Production

    Choate, R., 1962, Idaho Bureau Of Mines Pamphlet 126, P. 50.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1975 Yett, Jay R.; Miller, Pat U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 05-OCT-1990 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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