(Facility) Bunker Hill Lead Smelter & Refinery

Plant in Shoshone county in Idaho, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc
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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10290715
MRDS ID W019388
MAS/MILS ID 0160799003
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Bunker Hill Lead Smelter & Refinery
Related records 10105938

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -116.13913, 47.53377 (WGS84)
Elevation 728
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shoshone(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kellogg West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Coeur D'Alene(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Spokane(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Shoshone

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 048 N 002 E 02 C NENE Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) Alluvial deposits.

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Plant type Smelter/Refiner

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PLANT- TYPE= TONNES/YR- INPUT= OUTPUT=113400

  • Deposit

    EMPLOYMENT- MINE= PLANT=450 1975

  • Deposit

    E/MJ 1975 DIRECTORY MINE AND MINERAL PROCESSORS (POOR)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Environmental Factors CERCLA (SUPERFUND) SITE LISTED ON NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST (NPL), SEPT. 1983, ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS INCLUDE LEAD SMELTING WASTES. CLEAN UP HAS BEGUN. DOI/USBM ALLEGED TO BE A PRP.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 14-MAR-1995 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.