Mine detail: Miller Brothers Mine

Previously called 'Lucky Charlie Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

48.94877, -116.29857

Resource(B)

Primary:	Lead, Silver
Tertiary:	Zinc, Nickel, Copper, Gold, Sulfides
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Magnetite, Pyrite
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1937

Geology

Host rock:	Prichard Formation-Quartzite, Argillite
Host type:	Quartzite
Associated rock:	Purcell Sill-Metagabbro;Wall Mountain Stock-Syenite;Kaniksu Batholith-Granite To Granodiorite
Associated type:	Gabbro
Structure:	Occurrence On East - Dipping Limb Of Large Fold With N - Trending Axis; Purcell Trench, Kaniksu Batholith; Moyie - Leonia Fault., Shear Zone At Upper Contact Of Sill.
Tectonic:	Miogeosyncline
Alteration processes:	Iron Stains, Silicified

References

MRDS	W007732
MAS	160210008
DEP	10069938
Reference	{Deposit:: Brackebusch, Fred W., 1969, Economic Geology Of The Queen Mountain Area, A Part Of The Purcell Range, Boundary County, Idaho: Unpublished Thesis, Univ. Idaho 76 P.}{Deposit:: Zartman, R. E., And Stacey, J. S., 1971, Lead Isotopes And Mineralization Ages In Belt Supergroup Rocks, Northwestern Montana And Northern Idaho: Econ. Geol., V. 66, P. 849 - 860.}{Deposit:: Kiilsgaard, T. H., 1949, Descriptions Of Some Ore Deposits And Their Relationships To The Purcell Sills, Boundary County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 85, 31 P.}{Deposit:: 1951 Other Idaho Bureau Of Mines & Geol. Pamphlet 8}{Deposit:: V.E. Mitchell, Et. Al; Mines And Prospects Map Series, 1981, Sandpoint Quad, Location No. 10.}{Production:: Brackebusch, F. W. 1969, Univ. Of Idaho Thesis, 76 P.}
Reporter	Miller, Pat J., Western Field Operations Center (WFOC)