Panhandle Mine

Past Producer in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106006
MRDS ID W026761
Record type Site
Current site name Panhandle Mine
Alternate or previous names Stratton, Dayrock Mine
Related records 10120899

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.89742, 47.50847 (WGS84)
Elevation 968
Relative position 1.5 MI W OF GEM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shoshone(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Osburn(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Thompson Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Coeur d'Alene(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 048N 004E 13 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • ALONG NINEMILE CREEK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Monzonite
    Rock description Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Revett Formation
    Rock description Revett Formationt

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.89742, 47.50847

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 73.15M
    Length 198.12M
    Width 1.22M
    Depth to top 1.52M
    Depth to bottom 96.01M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Coeur D'Alene District (Placer Center)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Hecla, Dayrock Mines, Inc.

Comments on the production information

  • A SMALL AMOUNT OF PB ORE WAS PRODUCED IN 1922.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DAYROCK MIN. CO. TOOK OVER PANHANDLE FROM STRATTON MINES CO. IN LATE 1928

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Murphy, Lyn S.; Miller, Pat U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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