Sonora Prospect

Occurrence in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078440
MRDS ID W026769
Record type Site
Current site name Sonora Prospect
Related records 10168897

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.77932, 47.52127 (WGS84)
Elevation 1406
Relative position 3.75 MI NE OF MULLAN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shoshone(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Burke(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Thompson Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Coeur d'Alene(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 Shoshone

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 048N 005E 11 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • ON SONORA GULCH.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.77932, 47.52127

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Coeur D'Alene District (Lelande)

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Day Min. Co. ?

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1586.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • LENGTH WORKINGS IS A 1952 FIGURE

Comments on development

  • 13 PATENTED, 2 UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1975 Murphy, Lyn S.; Miller, Pat U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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