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Miller Cinnabar

Past Producer in Cassia county in Idaho, United States with commodities Mercury, Copper, Lead, Arsenic, Barium-Barite
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040437
MRDS ID M055217
MAS/MILS ID 0160310022
Record type Site
Current site name Miller Cinnabar
Alternate or previous names Virmyra Gold, Highland

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.05165, 42.08462 (WGS84)
Elevation 2286
Relative position 9.5 MI NE OF STREVELL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cassia(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black Pine Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Oakley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Pocatello(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Curlew Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Sawtooth 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 Cassia

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 015S 029E 27, 34 NWNW (34) Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • High On Slope Of The Range. Short Distance Below Top Of Black Pine Cone Peak

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Jamesonite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Barite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Realgar Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Brazer Formation-Limestone
    Rock description Brazer Formation-Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.05165, 42.08462
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS
    Width 1.83M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure
  • Breccia Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Black Pine District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Sawtooth National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Virmyra Gold Mining Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 33.53M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 Short Tunnels

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Mercury In Idaho, 1965, USBM Ic 8252

  • Production

    USBM Data

  • Deposit

    Anderson, A.L., 1931 , Geology And Mineral Resources Of Eastern Cassia County, Idaho: Idaho Bur Mines And Geology Bull 14 , 169 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Vein May Be Traced For Several Hundred Ft

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1974 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1975 Murphy, Lyn S. And Miller, Pat U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 30-JAN-1995 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.

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