Lava Creek District

Producer in Blaine county in Idaho, United States with commodities Lead, Antimony, Tungsten, Copper, Silver, Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000214
MRDS ID D001446
Record type District
Current site name Lava Creek District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.66758, 43.4999 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Butte(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blizzard Mountain South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Craters of the Moon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Idaho Falls(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lake Walcott(hydrologic unit)

Upper Snake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper 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 Blaine
United States Idaho Butte

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Antimony Critical Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.66758, 43.4999

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name LAVA CREEK DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ANDERSON, A.L., 1929, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LAVA CREEK DISTRICT, IDAHO: ID. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. PAMPHLET 32

  • Deposit

    ROSS, C.P. AND CARR, M.S., 1941, THE METAL AND COAL MINING DISTRICTS OF IDAHO, WITH NOTES ON NONMETALLIC MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE STATE: ID. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. PAMPHLET 57, PT. 1

Beyond USGS

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