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Keltic Gold Mine

Past Producer in Ada county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105606
MRDS ID W013098
MAS/MILS ID 0160010086
Record type Site
Current site name Keltic Gold Mine
Alternate or previous names Celtic

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.11926, 43.61268 (WGS84)
Elevation 1158
Relative position 5 MI. E. OF BOISE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Ada(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lucky Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Boise(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Boise(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Boise(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Ada

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 003N 003E 08 N2 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS AN ESTIMATE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Analytical data

Result AVERAGE VALUE WAS $6.00 PER TON IN AU, AG IN 1906

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Idaho Batholith-Granite, Porphyry
    Rock description Idaho Batholith-Granite, Porphyry
    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) -116.11926, 43.61268
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR
    Width 6.1M

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 Shaw Mtn. District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 237.74M
    Overall depth 67.06M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Bell, R. N., 1907, Eighth Annual Report Of The Mining Industry Of Idaho For The Year 1906, P. 19 - 2

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Matthews, John Y.; Miller, Pat U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 03-NOV-1983 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

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

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