Lucile Bar Placer

Past Producer in Idaho county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  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. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10038181
MRDS ID M045480
MAS/MILS ID 0160490356
Record type Site
Current site name Lucile Bar Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.31128, 45.53431 (WGS84)
Elevation 488
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 10 MI NORTH OF RIGGINS AT LUCILE, Estimated At Lucile

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Idaho(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lucile(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grangeville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Grangeville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Salmon(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Idaho

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 025N 001E 02 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • In Nezperce National Forest. On East Side Of Salmon River At Lucile. Location Given Is Bridge Crossing River At Lucile. Adit Symbols South Of Lucile May Represent Some Of The Drift Mining Of The Older Benches

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Gold Is Very Fine Grained, Some Small Nuggets From Streams; Gold From Older Bench Gravels Is More Variable

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result PT=$144/TON (4.8 OZ/TON, 1,780 PPM), AU=$11,120/TON (538 OZ/TON, 1.8%) IN CONCENTRATES, CONCENTRATION NOT KNOWN. GOLD IS 850-865 FINE.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.31128, 45.53431

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form STREAM SEDIMENT DEPOSITS
    Thickness 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Hydraulics

Comments on the geologic information

  • Bedrock Is Mostly Schist And Some Nearby Limestone. Gold Source Is Possibly Granitic Bedrock To The East By Florence.
  • Entrapment By Irregularities In Stream Bed Or Deposition In Low-Energy Part Of Stream

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1862
Year of first production 1862

Mining district

District name Lucile-Sampson Districts

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Wakely Brothers
    First year 1937

Comments on the workings information

  • Hand And Hydraulic Mining, Some Old Drift Mines

Comments on development

  • Small Placers Operated Only When There Was Sufficient Water. Closed Down After 1930'S

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Placers Included Both Bench And Modern Stream Gravels, The Bench Gravels Are Prominent
Deposit Record W028094 Has Been Merged And Deleted.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-75 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-78 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-90 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 13-OCT-90 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.