Mine detail: Standard Shaft Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

42.74298, -116.90877

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Lead
Secondary:	Gold
Tertiary:	Copper, Zinc
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Gold, Malachite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Actinolite, Calcite, Garnet, Hematite, Ilvaite, Limonite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1868

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Al Limestone, Limestone
Host type:	Schist,Limestone
Associated rock:	Basalt Unit-Basalt;Silver City Granite-Granodiorite
Associated type:	Diorite
Alteration processes:	Oxidized, Gossan

References

MRDS	W007723
DEP	10069932
Reference	{Deposit:: SORENSON, R. E., 1927 , THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 22 , 47 P}{Deposit:: 1927 GEOLMAP IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES & GEOL. PAMPHLET 2}{Production:: BELL, R. N., 1907 , 9TH ANN. REPT. OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF IDAHO FOR 1907.}
Reporter	Miller, Pat J.