1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Gold King Mine

Past Producer in Idaho county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071561
MRDS ID W015019
MAS/MILS ID 0160490258
Record type Site
Current site name Gold King Mine
Alternate or previous names Good Enough

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.61625, 45.23154 (WGS84)
Elevation 2103
Relative position 4 MI SE OF WARREN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Idaho(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pilot Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warren(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Elk City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South 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 Idaho

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 022N 007E 20 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • Along Warren - Big Creek Road

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Analytical data

Result SMELTER SHIPMENTS AS MUCH AS $150 AU, $3 AG/TON
Result TAILINGS ASSAY $20/TON

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
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.61625, 45.23154
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike SW
    Dip 50 DEG S
    Width 0.46M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • 2 Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • 1 Fracture Strikes S 85 Deg E, Second Strikes S 72 Deg W

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Warren District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Payette National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Fisk, A. W. And Newcomb, Robert

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    Lorain, S. H., 1938, USBM Inf. Circ. 7039

  • Deposit

    Lorain, S. H., 1938, Gold Mining And Milling In Idaho County, Idaho: USBM Inf. Circ. 7039, 90 P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 Veins

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1976 Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 13-OCT-1990 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site