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White Rabbit Prospect

Past Producer in Lemhi county in Idaho, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead
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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. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10070812
MRDS ID W013910
MAS/MILS ID 0160590348
Record type Site
Current site name White Rabbit Prospect

Comments on the site identification

  • This Claim Is Part Of The Yellow Jacket Group Which Consists Of Over 100 Claims. District Has Been Recurrently Active Since The 1880s

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.54453, 44.97048 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position ABOUT 1 MI SW OF OLD TOWN OF YELLOWJACKET

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lemhi(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Yellowjacket(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Middle Fork Salmon(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 019N 016E 24 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • In Gulch Some Distance W And Above Yellowjacket Creek

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result FS MIN EXAM 1959 LEWIECK

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock type qualifier Biotite Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock type qualifier Altered Quartzite
    Rock unit name Yellowjacket Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.54453, 44.97048
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form NARROW, DISCONTINUOUS
    Strike N 30 DEG W
    Dip 65 DEG SW
    Thickness 0.3M
    Length 18.29M

Comments on the geologic information

  • Late Cretaceous - Early Tertiary Associated Rock Dikes

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Yellowjacket District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Salmon National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner George Steen
  • Type Owner
    Owner Steen Family

Comments on development

  • Mill

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Anderson, Alfred L., 1953, Gold - Copper - Lead Deposits Of The Yellowjacket District, Lemhi County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 94, 41 P

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1974 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Meier, M. Lorrie U.S. Bureau of Mines
Reporter 25-JUN-1984 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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