Giant Ledge Mine

Past Producer in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10242091
MRDS ID W026682
MAS/MILS ID 0160790444
Record type Site
Current site name Giant Ledge Mine
Related records 10078380

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -115.79682, 47.58597 (WGS84)
Elevation 975
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

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)

Upper 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 049 N 005 E 15 SESE Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • THE GIANT LEDGE PROSPECT IS 4.5 MILES EAST OF MURRAY, ABOUT 1 MILE UP GRANITE GULCH.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Lead Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -115.79682, 47.58597

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

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

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    IBMG, MINES AND PROSPECTS OF THE WALLACE QUAD, IDAHO, 1981,

  • Deposit

    HUSTEDDE, ET AL.

  • Deposit

    HOSTERMAN, 1956, USGS B-1027-P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 21-OCT-1990 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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