Toughnut Mine

Past Producer in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver
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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078376
MRDS ID W026675
MAS/MILS ID 0160790456
Record type Site
Current site name Toughnut Mine
Alternate or previous names Tough Nut

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.86242, 47.57067 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341
Relative position 4 MI S OF MURRAY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shoshone(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Burke(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

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 049N 005E 19, 30 W2 (19) Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • Along Carbon Creek.

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Magnetite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrrhotite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Prichard Formation
    Rock description Prichard Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) Prichard Formation.

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 55 DEG W
    Dip S
    Length 45.72M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Coeur D'Alene District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Day Mines, Inc.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit In the Sunset Mineral Belt

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1975 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 21-OCT-1990 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.