Homebuilder Property

Occurrence in Kootenai county in Idaho, United States with commodities Silver, Gold
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  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 10073393
MRDS ID W019453
Record type Site
Current site name Homebuilder Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.56185, 47.69846 (WGS84)
Elevation 884
Relative position 10.75 MI E OF COEUR D'ALENE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kootenai(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wolf Lodge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Coeur D'Alene(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spokane(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Coeur d'Alene Lake(hydrologic unit)

Spokane(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Idaho Panhandle National Forests(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Kootenai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 050N 002W 11,12 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • SHORT DISTANCE BELOW MOUTH OF PHANTOM CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Tertiary
Gold Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ANNUAL STATE MINE INSPECTOR REPORTS INDICATE AG, AU SOUGHT.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrrhotite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Upper Prichard Form-Shale, Argillite, Quartzite;Lower Burke Form-Shale, Argillite, Quartzite
    Rock description Upper Prichard Form-Shale, Argillite, Quartzite;Lower Burke Form-Shale, Argillite, Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.56185, 47.69846

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Broad Much - Faulted Anticlinal Uplift Of Wnw Trend

Comments on the geologic information

  • BEDS STRIKE N 20 DEG W, DIP 35 DEG NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Wolf Lodge District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Coeur d'Alene National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Homebuilder Mining And Development Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1524M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORK TERMINATED 1923 AFTER LARGE AMOUNT DIAMOND DRILLING DONE

Comments on development

  • 46 UNPATENTED CLAIMS, MINE PLANT AND CAMP AT ONE TIME

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ANDERSON, A. L., 1940 , GEOLOGY AND METALLIFEROUS DEPOSITS OF KOOTENAI COUNTY, IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 53 , 67 P.

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, P. A., AND OTHERS, 1925 , A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF CERTAIN REPORTED PLATINUM OCCURRENCES NEAR COEUR D'ALENE, IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 6 , 14 P.

  • Deposit

    1925 RECON IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 6

  • Deposit

    1940 GEOLMAP IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 53

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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