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Buckskin Prospect

Producer in Custer county in Idaho, United States with commodities Tungsten, Zinc
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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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071135
MRDS ID W014365
Record type Site
Current site name Buckskin Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.5622, 44.3256 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position 9 MI NW CLAYTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Thompson Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

White Cloud Peaks(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper 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 Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 012N 016E 34 Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Vesuvianite Gangue

Analytical data

Result ASSAY FOUND 0.13% WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Idaho Batholith-Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Idaho Batholith-Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Milligen Formation-Argillite
    Rock description Milligen Formation-Argillite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.5622, 44.3256
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bayhorse District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Challis National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Salmon River Scheelite Corp.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 228.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • 1 ADIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COOK, E. F., 1956, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH - CENTRAL IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 108, 40 P.

  • Deposit

    GRINER, W. C., 1974, SEVENTY - FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF IDAHO FOR 1973 - 1974

  • Deposit

    1956 RECON IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 108

  • Production

    COOK, E. F., 1956, IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES & GEOL. PAMPHLET 108, P. 24.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1976-07-01 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.

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