Banner District

Past Producer in Boise county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Zinc, Arsenic, Lead
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001619
MRDS ID W002477
Record type District
Current site name Banner District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.52345, 44.02768 (WGS84)
Relative position 75 MILES NE OF BOISE, 6 MI SE OF LOWMAN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Boise(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lowman(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

Boise 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 Boise

Commodities

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

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.52345, 44.02768

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description FRACTURES AND SHEARS N 80 DEG E, N 55 DEG E, N 20 DEG W, N 60 DEG W

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1864
Year of first production 1882

Mining district

District name BANNER DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Beyond USGS

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