Mine detail: Silver City Region

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Location

Lat / long:

43.0171, -116.73125

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Gold
Tertiary:	Lead, Zinc, Copper
Ore:	Argentite, Electrum, Miargyrite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Calcite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1863

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1863

Geology

Host rock:	Silver City Granite
Host type:	Rhyolite
Associated type:	Dacite
Structure:	Idaho Batholith, Large Post-Mineral Faults
Tectonic:	Idaho Batholith (Cenozoic Orogenic Belt)
Alteration processes:	Sericitization-Silicification

References

MRDS	W002476
DEP	10069088
Reference	{Deposit:: PIPER, A. M., AND FRANCIS, L. B., 1926, GEOLOGY AND METALLIFEROUS RESOURCES OF THE REGION ABOUT SILVER CITY, ID: ID. BUR. OF MINE BULL. 11}{Deposit:: ROSS, C. P., 1941, MINING DISTRICTS OF IDAHO: ID. BUR. OF MINE GEOL. PAMPHLET NO. 57. P. 15-16.}{Production:: PIPER, A.M., ID. BUR OF MINES BULL. 11 1926}
Reporter	Petersen, David W.