Routson Prospect

Occurrence in Valley county in Idaho, United States with commodities Antimony, Copper
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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071461
MRDS ID W014863
Record type Site
Current site name Routson Prospect
Alternate or previous names Elliott

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.32406, 45.13738 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position .75 MI N OF BIG CREEK STORE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Valley(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warren(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Elk City(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

Payette 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 Valley

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 021N 009E 26 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • W. BANK BIG CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Antimony Critical Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Calcite, Sericitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Belt Supergroup
    Rock description Belt Supergroup-Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.32406, 45.13738

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 0.61M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Big Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Payette National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEONARD, B. F., 1965, MERCURY-BEARING ANTIMONY DEPOSIT BETWEEN BIG CREEK AND YELLOW PINE, CENTRAL IDAHO: USGS PROF PAPER 525-B, P 27

  • Deposit

    LINDSEY, E., 1958, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE BIG CREEK DISTRICT, IDAHO: BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA, M.S. THESIS, 67 P.

  • Deposit

    1965 RECON B. F. LEONARD, PROF. PAPER 525-

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1976 Duncan, Daniel G. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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