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Sheep Creek Mine

Past Producer in Lemhi county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10070412
MRDS ID W013338
MAS/MILS ID 0160590138
Record type Site
Current site name Sheep Creek Mine
Alternate or previous names Sunrise, Sunset

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.82532, 45.44709 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position 8.8 MI N70E OF NORTH FORK, Within 1 Sq Mi, Within 1 Sq Mi

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lemhi(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Shewag Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salmon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Salmon-Panther(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Salmon-Challis 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 Lemhi

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 025N 022E 35 SE OF SW Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Lemhi
    Rock description Lemhi
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.82532, 45.44709
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS
    Width 0.3M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name North Fork Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Salmon National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Anderson, A. L., 1959, Geology And Mineral Resources Of The North Fork Quadrangle, Lemhi County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 118, 92 P

  • Deposit

    Lorain, S. H., And Metzger, O. H., 1939, Reconnaissance Of Placer Mining Districts In Lemhi County, Idaho: USBM Inf. Circ. 7082, 81 P

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-74 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-83 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 30-DEC-96 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

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

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