Big Boy Prospect

Occurrence in Owyhee county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver
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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096501
MRDS ID W027334
Record type Site
Current site name Big Boy Prospect
Related records 10169354

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.80157, 42.95298 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position 13 MI E OF JORDAN VALLEY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Owyhee(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Flint(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Triangle(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Jordan Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jordan(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management ID)

Bureau of Land Management ID BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Owyhee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 005S 004W 27,34 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR HEAD OF A TRIBUTARY OF LOUSE CR; LOCATION UNCERTAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Analytical data

Result OWNERS REPORTED HAND-PICKED SAMPLE ASSAYED $35 IN GOLD, SILVER, AND LEAD

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Silver City Granite-Granodiorite
    Rock description Silver City Granite-Granodiorite
    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) -116.80157, 42.95298

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 2438.4M
    Width 6.1M
    Depth to top 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Flint District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Guess Huff

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 15.24M

Comments on development

  • 6 UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GREEN, W. R., 1966 , BIG BOY PROSPECT: IDAHO BUR MINES AND GEOLOGY OPEN-FILE REPT., 2 P

  • Deposit

    1966 RECON BUNKER HILL

  • Deposit

    1966 RECON IDAHO BUR MINES AND GEOLOGY OPEN-FILE REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1977 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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