Blue Stone Prospect

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10241437
MRDS ID W015262
MAS/MILS ID 0160850164
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Stone Prospect
Alternate or previous names Werdenhoff Group, Idaho Primitive Area.
Related records 10071729

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -115.34406, 45.18988 (WGS84)
Elevation 1975
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Valley(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warren(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Elk City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Middle 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 Valley

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 021 N 009 E 03 NWSENW Idaho

Commodities

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

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -115.34406, 45.18988

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Payette National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    IDAHO PRIMITIVE AREA AND VICINITY, IDAHO, USGS BULLETIN

  • Deposit

    1304; 1973, P. 247-48.

  • Deposit

    WFOC MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 0160850164.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SAMPLES OF FLOAT AND OUTCROPS AVERAGED 21.6 GRAM SILVER PER METRIC TON AND TRACES GOLD, COPPER, AND LEAD. FOUR SAMPLES TAKEN FROM BEST ROCK EXPOSURE IN PROSPECT CONTAINED 14 TO 63 GRAM SILVER PER METRIC TON, 0.01-1.12 PER CENT LEAD, TRACE TO 0.46 PERCENT COPPER, TRACE GOLD.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 12-MAY-95 Winters, Dick U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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