Blackhawk Mine

Past Producer in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Public Land Survey System information
Commodities
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Ownership information
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10159884
MRDS ID	W019540
MAS/MILS ID	0160790406
Record type	Site
Current site name	Blackhawk Mine
Related records	10105944

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference	Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates:	-116.18933, 47.52517 (WGS84)
Elevation	802
Location accuracy	100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shoshone(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kellogg West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Coeur D'Alene(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spokane(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	048 N	002 E	10	NWNENE	Idaho

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Copper	Tertiary
Gold	Tertiary
Lead	Tertiary
Silver	Tertiary
Zinc Critical	Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1)	-116.18933, 47.52517	ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name	Yreka

Ownership information

Type Owner

Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)

Year 1975

Type	Owner
Owner	Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
Year	1975

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
U.S. Bureau of Mines	Minerals Availability System	MAS	0160790406
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	W019540	MAS references MRDS
Idaho Geological Survey	Idaho Mines and Prospects	IMP	SP_166	http://www.idahogeology.org/

Bibliographic references

Deposit

Hobbs, S. W., And Others, 1965 , Geology Of The Coeur D'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho: USGS Prof. Paper 478 , 139 P., Plate 1
Deposit

FRYKLUND 1964 USGS PROF PAPER 445

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	8-75 THE BLACKHAWK IS ON GROUND OF THE PAGE GROUP OF CLAIMS BY ASARCO.

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	21-OCT-90	Kauffman, John D.	U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.) — acquired by Asarco LLC, subsidiary of Grupo México (2009)
American Smelting and Refining Co. Filed Chapter 11 in 2005; acquired out of bankruptcy by Grupo México in 2009.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.