Mine detail: Poorman Mine

Previously called 'OsoBelle Peck Tunnels'

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Location

Lat / long: 43.01408, -116.71037

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Gold
Tertiary: Zinc, Copper, Lead
Ore: Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Owyheeite, Polybasite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stephanite
Gangue: Calcite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Quartz
Orebody form: IRREGULAR
Discovery year: 1865

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Medium
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1865

Geology

Host rock:Silver City Granite-Granodiorite
Host type:Diorite
Associated rock:Silver City Granite-Granodiorite
Associated type:Granite
Alteration processes:Silicification; Epidote; Chlorite; Sericite; Kaolin

References

MRDSW007712
DEP10069926
Reference{Deposit:: ASHER, R. R., 1968, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF A PORTION OF THE SILVER CITY REGION, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 138, 106 P.}{Deposit:: PIPER, A. M., AND LANEY, F. B., 1926, GEOLOGY AND METALLIFEROUS RESOURCES OF THE REGION ABOUT SILVER CITY, IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 11, 165 P.}{Deposit:: LINDGREN, W., 1898, THE GOLD AND SILVER VEINS OF SILVER CITY, DELAMAR AND OTHER MINING DISTRICTS IN IDAHO: 20TH ANN. REPORT, U.S.G.S. P. 75 (PART 3).}{Deposit:: CAMPBELL, A., 1935 , 37TH ANN. REPT. OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF IDAHO FOR 1935.}{Deposit:: 1898 COMPILE W. LINDGREN 20TH ANN. REPT.}{Deposit:: 1926 GEOLMAP IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES & GEOL. BULL. 11}{Deposit:: 1935 DIREXPL CONSOLIDATED MIN. AND DREDGE CO.}{Deposit:: 1968 GEOLMAP IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 138}{Production:: LINDGREN, W., 1898 , USGS 20TH ANN. REPT. PT. 3 , P. 75 . RAYMOND, R. W., 1870 - 1873 , 41ST - 42ND CONGRESSES HOUSE OF REP. EX. DOCS.}
ReporterMiller, Pat J.