War Eagle Prospect

Prospect in Idaho county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Iron, Lead, Silver, Zinc
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. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071527
MRDS ID W014968
MAS/MILS ID 0160490168
Record type Site
Current site name War Eagle Prospect
Alternate or previous names Polaris

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.80018, 45.32707 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377
Relative position 6.75 MI NE OF BURGDORF

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Idaho(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

War Eagle Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warren(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Elk City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Salmon-Chamberlain(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 Idaho

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 023N 005E 14 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • Near Top Of War Eagle Mtn.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Iron Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Analytical data

Result ORE YIELDED $40 AU/TON BY AMALGAMATION
Result LIMONITE MAKES UP 5-25% VOLUME OF ORE
Result METALLIC IRON CONTENT 60 - 65%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Idaho Batholith-Granite
    Rock description Idaho Batholith-Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Belt Supergroup
    Rock description Belt Supergroup-Gneiss, Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.80018, 45.32707

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS, STRINGERS
    Strike S 70 DEG E
    Dip S
    Length 53.34M
    Width 3.05M
    Depth to bottom 18.29M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Burgdorf District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Payette National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Giboy, Nick
  • Type Owner
    Owner War Eagle Mining Co., Inc.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 4.57M
    Overall length 13.72M
    Overall width 1.52M

Comments on the workings information

  • Several Open Cuts, Shaft, Adit

Comments on development

  • 3 Unpatented Claims, War Eagle Nos. 1, 2, 3

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1976 Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 02-NOV-1993 Cather U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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