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Rocket Prospect

Occurrence in Valley county in Idaho, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071723
MRDS ID W015254
Record type Site
Current site name Rocket Prospect
Alternate or previous names White Bluff
Related records 10144801

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.36516, 45.17208 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377
Relative position 3.5 MI NW OF BIG CREEK R. S.

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 021N 009E 09 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • 1 MI SW FROM JUNCTION OF SMITH CREEK AND WERDENHOFF MINE ROADS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SCHEELITE OCCURS MAINLY AS FLOAT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Covellite Ore
Malachite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrrhotite Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Tremolite - Actinolite, Muscovite, Garnet

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES ASSAYED 0.02, 0.08, AND 0.5% SCHEELITE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Yellowjacket Formation-Metamorphosed Limestone, Schist, Gneiss, Slate, Argillite, Dolomite;Quartz-Feldspar Gneiss
    Rock description Yellowjacket Formation-Metamorphosed Limestone, Schist, Gneiss, Slate, Argillite, Dolomite;Quartz-Feldspar Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.36516, 45.17208
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS
    Width 0.01M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding Planes, Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • HOST ROCK STRIKES N 30 - 50 DEG W AND DIPS 60 - 75 DEG NE; KIRKPATRICK (1974) IS UNSURE OF AGE OF QUARTZ - FELDSPAR GNEISS, BUT BELIEVES IT TO BE BETWEEN PRECAMBRIAN AND CRETACEOUS; PRIOR AUTHORS LABELED THIS ROCK AS CRET. GRANITIC ROCK OF IDAHO BATHOLITH

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1953
Discoverer Wilbur Wiles

Mining district

District name Edwardsburg District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Payette National Forest
Ownership category National Primitive Area
Area name Idaho Primitive Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Wiles, Wilbur

Comments on development

  • 6 LODE CLAIMS ; ECON.COM: SCHEELITE DEPOSITS TOO SMALL TO MAKE PROSPECT COMMERCIAL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CATER, F. W., AND OTHERS, 1973, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE IDAHO PRIMITIVE AREA AND VICINITY, IDAHO: USGS BULL. 1304, 431 P.

  • Deposit

    KIRKPATRICK, G. E., 1974, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BIG CREEK AREA, VALLEY AND IDAHO COUNTIES, IDAHO: MOSCOW, IDAHO, UNIV. OF IDAHO, M. S. THESIS, P. 39 - 40

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON F. W. CATER AND OTHERS, BULL. 130

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1974 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey

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