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Pitkin

Producer in Lemhi county in Idaho, United States with commodities Copper, Lead
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10022985
MRDS ID FS00599
MAS/MILS ID 0160590598
Record type Site
Current site name Pitkin
Alternate or previous names Yellowjacket Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.48843, 44.97568 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lemhi(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Duck Creek Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Challis(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

Salmon-Challis 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 Lemhi

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 019N 017E 17 Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore

Analytical data

Result FS MIN EXAM 1959 LEWIECKI

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.48843, 44.97568
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Salmon National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    IBMG Mines and Prospects Of Challis Quad. 1982, V.E. Mitchell, Et Al.

  • Deposit

    Anderson, 1953, IBMG P-94.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit This Claim Is Part Of The Yellowjacket Group Which Consists Of Over 100 Claims. District Has Been Recurrently Active Since The 1880s

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Meier, M. Lorrie U.S. Forest Service
Reporter 14-NOV-1983 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

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

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