1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Gold Bug Vein Mine

Past Producer in Owyhee county in Idaho, United States with commodities Silver, Gold
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10069895
MRDS ID W007661
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Bug Vein Mine
Related records 10290883

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.72017, 43.00068 (WGS84)
Elevation 2024
Relative position 2,000 FEET FROM THE POORMAN MILL IN SILVER CORD GULCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Owyhee(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Murphy(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Boise(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jordan(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management ID)

Bureau of Land Management ID BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Owyhee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 005S 003W 08 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • ON WAR EAGLE MOUNTAIN; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = JORDAN VALLEY 1:250000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Silver City Granite-Granodiorite
    Rock description Silver City Granite-Granodiorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.72017, 43.00068
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 6 DEG W
    Dip 60 DEG E

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faults, Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Carson District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M
    Overall depth 27.43M

Comments on development

  • 3 UNPATENTED CLAIMS ( 1937 )

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1898, THE GOLD AND SILVER VEINS OF SILVER CITY, DELAMAR, AND OTHER MINING DISTRICTS IN IDAHO: 20TH ANN. REPORT, U.S.G.S., P. 75 -205 (PT. 3)

  • Deposit

    1898 COMPILE W. LINDGREN 20TH ANN. REPOR

  • Production

    GERRY, C. N., 1927 - 1934 , MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1923 - 1931 , PT. 1 METALS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1975 Benjamin, David A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site