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Golden Rule Placer Mine

Past Producer in Idaho county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Mineral rights holdings
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105740
MRDS ID W014977
MAS/MILS ID 0160490471
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Rule Placer Mine
Alternate or previous names Grouse Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.83348, 45.27267 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position 4 MI E OF BURGDORF

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Idaho(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

War Eagle Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warren(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Elk City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Salmon(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Payette 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 Idaho

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 022N 005E 03 E2NW Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • N. Side Secesh River At Mouth Of Grouse Creek

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Analytical data

Result GRAVEL AVG. $0.12/C.Y

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Belt Supergroup
    Rock description Glacial Moraine-Gravel;Sand, Shale, Lignite;Belt Supergroup-Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.83348, 45.27267
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to bottom 6.1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Old Stream Channel

Comments on the geologic information

  • Both Side Hill And Old Channel Mined

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1865
Discoverer Bundle And Brown

Mining district

District name Burgdorf District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim
Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Payette National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner L. C. Winkler

Comments on the production information

  • Item 9 From Hillside And Old Channel, Item 10 From Old Stream Channel

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 29.264HA
    Overall length 1158.24M
    Overall width 304.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 Pits, Largest Pit 30 Ft. Deep; Total Of 1,750,000 C.Y. Material Sluiced - 500,000 C.Y. From Old Channel, 1,250,000 C.Y. From Hillside.

Comments on development

  • Hydraulic Plant, 2 Mile Long Ditch

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Capps, S. R., 1940, Gold Placers Of The Secesh Basin, Idaho County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 52, 43 P.

  • Production

    Capps, S. R., 1940, Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 52; Items 11, 12, Lorain, S. H., And Metzger, O. H., 1938, USBM Inf. Circ. 7023

  • Deposit

    Lorain, S. H., And Metzger, O. H., 1938, Reconnaissance Of Placer Mining Districts In Idaho County, Idaho: USBM Inf. Circ. 7023, 93 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1860'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1976 Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 28-MAR-1995 Cather U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

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