Coeur D'Alene District

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001742
MRDS ID W026710
Record type District
Current site name Coeur D'Alene District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.96632, 47.47677 (WGS84)
Relative position SMELTERVILLE TO MULLAN AREA INCLUDED IN DISTRICT. PLOTTED ON GALENA SHAFT AS MID-DISTRICT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shoshone(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wallace(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Coeur d'Alene(hydrologic unit)

Spokane(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Shoshone

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Antimony Critical Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Copper Secondary
Cadmium Secondary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.96632, 47.47677

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description INTERSECTION OF N-TRENDING MAJOR ANTICLINAL UPLIFT AND WNW-TRENDING LEWIS AND CLARK LINE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1878
Discoverer Thomas Irwin
Year of first production 1884

Mining district

District name COEUR D'ALENE DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SPOKANE CHRONICLE, NOV. 8 , 1973 ; APRIL 13 , 1969

  • Deposit

    SPOKANE STOCK EXCHANGE COMMISSION ADVERTISEMENT, 1975

  • Deposit

    CARTER, R. A., AND LI, TAM., 1976 , IDAHO'S COEUR D'ALENE DISTRICT SETS SIGHTS ON RECORD PRODUCTION: MINING ENG., V. 28 , NO. 7 , P. 49 - 64

Beyond USGS

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