Corral Creek Tungsten Deposits

Past Producer in Camas county in Idaho, United States with commodity Tungsten
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. Alteration
  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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10070627
MRDS ID W013638
Record type Site
Current site name Corral Creek Tungsten Deposits

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.93702, 43.44799 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position 9 MILES NE CORRAL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Camas(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Smoky Dome(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fairfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hailey(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Camas(hydrologic unit)

Upper Snake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper 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 Camas

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 001N 013E 05,08 Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinization

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.93702, 43.44799

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 35 DEG E
    Dip 60 DEG NW
    Width 0.1M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discoverer W. S. Roberts
Year of first production 1916

Mining district

District name Rough Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • A SMALL AMOUNT OF W ORE WAS PRODUCED IN 1916.

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT, TUNNELS, STOPES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LIVINGSTON, D. C., 1919, TUNGSTEN, CINNABAR, MANGANESE, MOLYBDENUM, AND TIN DEPOSITS OF IDAHO: UNIV. OF IDAHO BULL. 2, V. 14, 72 P

  • Production

    LIVINGSTON, D. C., 1919, UNIV. IDAHO BULL. 2.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 3 PARALLEL QUARTZ VEINS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1976 Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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