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Franklin Prospect

Prospect in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodities Copper, Cobalt, Nickel
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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. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067849
MRDS ID W000719
MAS/MILS ID 0160790154
Record type Site
Current site name Franklin Prospect
Alternate or previous names Stanley Boys Mine, Helmer Silver Mines Co., Copper Bell

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.92992, 47.30237 (WGS84)
Elevation 853
Relative position 11 MI DUE S OF WALLACE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shoshone(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mastodon Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

St. Joe(hydrologic unit)

Spokane(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Idaho Panhandle National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

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 046N 004E 27 E2SE Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Nickel Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gersdorffite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrrhotite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Thin Gouge Seams

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.92992, 47.30237
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Osburn Fault; Complex Nw-Se Folding And Faulting Accompanied By Fracturing, Shearing And Jointing

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 70 DEG W
    Dip 40 DEG S
    Length 18.29M
    Width 3.66M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Avery

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name St. Joe National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Nickelby

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 106.68M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Wagner, W. R., 1949 , The Geology Of Part Of The South Slope Of The St. Joe Mountains, Shoshone County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 82 , 48 P

  • Deposit

    1949 Geolmap Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 82

  • Reserve-Resource

    Unpublished Cobalt Report.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1972 Coury, Anny B. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1977 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 23-NOV-1983 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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