Mineral District

Past Producer in Washington county in Idaho, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  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 60001620
MRDS ID W002478
Record type District
Current site name Mineral District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.06571, 44.56236 (WGS84)
Relative position 24 MILES NORTH OF WEISER IDAHO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washington(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Monroe Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Brownlee Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management ID)

Bureau of Land Management ID BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Washington

Commodities

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

Alteration

  • (Local) SERICITIZATION
  • (Local) CHLORITIZATION

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.06571, 44.56236

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name Anticline
Structure description BROAD COMPLEXLY FAULTED ANTICLINE TRENDING ENE, TWO FAULT SYSTEMS THAT CONTROL MINERALIZATION

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1870
Year of first production 1880

Mining district

District name MINERAL DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ANDERSON, A. L. 1952, AND WAGNER, W. R., RECONAISSANCE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MINERAL DISTRICT: ID. BUR OF MIN. AND GEOL. PAMPH 95

  • Deposit

    LIVINGSTON, D. C. 1925, MINERAL AND CUDDY MTN DISTRICTS: ID. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 13

Beyond USGS

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