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Payette Placer Area

Prospect in Boise county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, PGE, Uranium
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10192432
MAS/MILS ID 0160150154
Record type Site
Current site name Payette Placer Area
Alternate or previous names Sawtooth Primitive Area.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -115.14904, 44.10408 (WGS84)
Elevation 1572
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Boise(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Edaho Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Deadwood River(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Payette(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Sawtooth National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Sawtooth Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Boise

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 009 N 011 E 02 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • THE DEPOSIT EXTENDS SOUTH FROM THE MOUTH OF TRAIL CREEK ABOUT 9.6 KILOMETERS UPSTREAM. IT COVERS PART OF SECTIONS 2,11,14,23,26,35, AND 36, T9N, R11E. AREA HAS BEEN EXPLORED BY 17 CHURN DRILL HOLES, FROM 12 TO 54 METERS DEEP. HOLES 1 THROUGH 12 ARE FROM 12 TO 33.5 METERS DEEP. CONCENTRATES FROM AREA DRILLED CONTAIN AN AVERAGE OF 3.9 KILOGRAMS OF BLACK SAND PER CUBIC METER, AND 2.4 KILOGRAMS OF HEAVY BUT NONMAGNETIC MATERIAL PER CUBIC METER. THE NONMAGNETIC FRACTION WAS ANALYZED FOR MIOBIUM, TANTALUM AND URANIUM. THE NB205, TA205, AND U308 CONTENT OF THE PLACER DEPOSIT, WEIGHTED BY LENGTH OF SAMPLE, AVERAGED 0.002, 0.0009, AND 0.0002 KILOGRAM PER CUBIC METER, RESPECTIVELY. HOLES 13 AND 15 WERE DRILLED TO A DEPTH OF 46 AND 44 METER THE SAMPLES WERE COMBINED AND PROCESSED AND CALCULATED TO CONTAIN 7.7 KILOGRAMS OF CONCENTRATES PER CUBIC METER. THE NONMAGNETIC FRACTION FROM HOLE 13 WAS EXAMINED PETRO- GRAPHICALLY AND SUMMARIZED AS FOLLOWS: FERROMAGNESIAN AND LIGHTER COLORED SILICATES ARE DOMINANT WITH QUARTZ, FELDSPARS, BIOTITE, PYROXINES, AMPHIBOLES, EPIDOTE, SPHENE, ILMENITE-LEUCOXENE, ZIRCON, ALLANITE, EUXENITE-POLYCRASE, AND PYRITE. CHURN DRILL HOLE 16 WAS DRILLED TO A DEPTH OF 51 METERS. CONCENTRATES INDICATE MAGNETIC MATERIAL AVERAGED 3.1 KILO- METERS PER CUBIC METER. NONMAGNETIC MATERIAL AVERAGED 2.8 KILOMETERS PER CUBIC METER. HOLE 17 SAMPLE RESULTS WERE ANALYZED AND MAGNETIC MATERIAL AVERAGED 25.7 KILOMETER PER CUBIC METER. THE AMOUNT OF AVAILABLE MATERIAL IN THE PAYETTE PLACER DEPOSIT IS IN THE ORDER OF SEVERAL HUNDRED MILLION CUBIC METERS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
PGE Critical Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) Granodiorite and two-mica granite.
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category National Primitive Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Messrs. Hill, Knoblock, Davis And Murray.
    Home office Idaho
    Year 1952

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SAWTOOTH PRIMITIVE AREA, IDAHO.

  • Deposit

    Kiilsgaard, T. H., And Others, 1970, Mineral Resources Of The Sawtooth Primitive Area, Idaho: USGS Bulletin 1319-D, 174p., P D82-91.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 03-NOV-1983 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

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