Highlands Aurora

Prospect in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodities Copper, 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 10290405
MRDS ID W026670
MAS/MILS ID 0160790487
Record type Site
Current site name Highlands Aurora
Alternate or previous names Highlands Aurora Property, Aurora Group, Highlands Aurora Properties
Related records 10078372

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -115.96073, 47.57347 (WGS84)
Elevation 1300
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

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)

Upper Coeur d'Alene(hydrologic unit)

Spokane(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Idaho Panhandle National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Shoshone

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 049 N 004 E 20 SESW Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -115.96073, 47.57347

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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 Coeur d'Alene National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    IBMG, MINES AND PROSPECTS OF THE WALLACE QUAD., IDAHO, 1981,

  • Deposit

    HUSTEDDE, ET AL.

  • Deposit

    HOSTERMAN, 1956, USGS B-1027-P.

  • Deposit

    V.E. MITCHELL, ET AL.; MINES AND PROSPECTS MAP SERIES, 1981,

  • Deposit

    SPOKANE QUAD, LOC.#86.

  • Deposit

    SPOKANE CHRONICLES, 6/22/67 & 12/22/75.

  • Deposit

    MSHA.DBF, 1995.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SAME PROPERTY AS MAS SEQ# 0160790533 WITH A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT LAT/LONG. PROPERTIES WERE COMBINED 04/95. OTHER HIGHLANDS AURORA PROPERTY LOCATED ON THE SPOKANE QUADRANGLE, KELLOGG MAP, 15 MIN SERIES. ALL OTHER DATA ON THE TWO PROPERTIES WAS THE SAME. LAT/LONG OF SEQ#0160790533 WAS N473423/W1160024. LAT/LONG OF THIS PROPERTY IS N473423/W1155832. MAY OR MAY NOT BE RESP_ID #1000499: MSHA.DBF, 1995.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 12-APR-1995 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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