Granite Peak Prospects

Prospect in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodities Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, Gold, Silver
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10070298
MRDS ID W013129
MAS/MILS ID 0160790239
Record type Site
Current site name Granite Peak Prospects
Alternate or previous names Elk Prairie Prospect, GP Group, Elk Prairie Copper Prospect, Abe Group, Tilicum Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.4479, 47.01597 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position ABOUT 7 MI SE OF RED IVES RANGER STATION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shoshone(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Peggy Peak(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 042N 008E 03 SENWNW Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • Near S. Boundary of St. Joe District

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.4479, 47.01597

Economic information

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 St. Joe District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name St. Joe National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Collier, A. J., 1906, Ore Deposits Of The St. Joe River Basin, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 285, P. 129 - 139

  • Deposit

    1906 Compile Collier, A. J., Bulletin 28

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau Of Mines Open-File Report MLA 3-93, 1993, P. 19; Plate 1.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1974 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 12-MAY-1993 Causey, J. Douglas U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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