Shaw Mining District

Prospect in Ada county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Osmium, Iridium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000948
MRDS ID M045481
Record type District
Current site name Shaw Mining District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.04766, 43.59738 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position AREA IS PARTLY WITHIN BOISE NATIONAL FOREST. LOCATION GIVEN IS FOR CREEK ADJACENT TO ADELMAN MINE LABELED ON TOPO MAP, EST IMATED WITHIN THE SHAW MOUNTAINS

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)

Boise-Mores(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle 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 Ada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Osmium Tertiary
Iridium Critical Tertiary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.04766, 43.59738

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream hydraulics

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect

Mining district

District name SHAW MINING DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    QUIRING, HEINRICH, 1962, PLATINMETALLE IN DIE METALLISCHEN ROHSTOFFE 16 BAND: STUTTGART, FERDINAND ENKE VERLAG, P. 247.

  • Deposit

    ROSS, C.P., 1941, THE METAL AND COAL MINING DISTRICTS OF IDAHO, WITH NOTES ON THE NONMETALLIC MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE STATE: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 57, P. 5.

  • Deposit

    STALEY, W.W., 1946, GOLD IN IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 68, FIG. 10.

  • Deposit

    GERRY, C.N., 1912,GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC - IDAHO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES, CALENDAR YEAR 1911, P. 586.

Beyond USGS

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