Steen Mine

Past Producer in Lemhi county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Mineral rights holdings
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108937
MRDS ID FS00598
MAS/MILS ID 0160590347
Record type Site
Current site name Steen Mine
Alternate or previous names Steen Family, Steen Group, Lincoln, Liberty, Continental, Broken Hill, Red Bird, Forney-Yelllow Jacket

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.53653, 44.97658 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lemhi(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Yellowjacket(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Middle Fork Salmon(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Salmon-Challis 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 Lemhi

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 019N 017E 16,17,24 Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Azurite Unknown
Calcite Unknown
Chalcopyrite Unknown
Limonite Unknown
Malachite Unknown
Pyrite Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Tetrahedrite Unknown

Analytical data

Result FS MIN EXAM 1959 LEWIECKI

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.53653, 44.97658

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name Shear zone
Type of structure Local
Structure name Stockwork
Type of structure Local
Structure name Brecciation

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N70W
    Thickness 30M
    Length 1000M
    Width 130M
    Area 25HA
    Depth to top 4M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting
  • Fracturing

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1890

Mining district

District name Yellowjacket

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim
Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Salmon National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Steen, H. S.
    Interest 100
    Home office Idaho
    Year 1977

Comments on the production information

  • Deposit Has Been A Minor Producer

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Umpleby, E.L., 1913, Geology And Ore Deposits Of Lemhi County, Idaho: USGS Bulletin 528

  • Deposit

    Ross 1934 USGS Bull 854

  • Deposit

    Hershey 1933 Report On Steen Mine To Bunker Hill and Sullivan

  • Deposit

    Anderson 1953 Id Bur Mines and Geol Pamph 94 P 27-32

  • Deposit

    USBM 1943 War Minerals Rept On The Steen Mine 19 P

  • Deposit

    Horning 1934 Rept On Steen Mine To H.S. Steen

  • Deposit

    USBM WFOC Min Prop File 127.8, Spokane, Wash.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit This Claim Is Part Of The Yellowjacket Group Which Consists Of Over 100 Claims. District Has Been Recurrently Active Since The 1880s
Deposit 7-77 The Point Location Is The Lincoln Shaft. 7-77 The Zone Of Mineralization Trends NW But Individual Veins Strike NE And Are Generally Steeply Dipping.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Meier, M. Lorrie U.S. Forest Service
Reporter 25-JUN-1984 Kauffman, John D. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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