Mine detail: Regal Mine

Previously called 'Silver CrescentCommercial'

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Location

Lat / long:

48.85047, -116.26076

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Tertiary:	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Calcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Orebody form:	LENTICULAR (PINCHED ON DIP AND STRIKE)

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Granite
Associated rock:	Kaniksu Batholith-Granite
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	Purcell Trench Trends Nne, Located W. Of Mine; Moyie - Lenia Fault Trends N, Located E Of Mine, Kaniksu Batholith; Shearing; Minor Faults
Tectonic:	Miogeosyncline
Alteration processes:	Oxidation

References

MRDS	W012844
MAS	160210020
DEP	10070136
Reference	{Deposit:: Brackebusch, F. W., 1969, Economic Geology Of The Queen Mountain Area, A Part Of The Purcell Range, Boundary County, Idaho: Unpublished Thesis, Univ.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:: Anderson, A. L., And Wagner, W. R., 1945, Lead - Zinc Mineralization In The Moyie - Yaak District Near Bonners Ferry, Boundary Co., Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geol. Pamphlet 73, 9 P.}{Deposit:: 1945 Other Idaho Bureau Of Mines & Geol. Pamphlet 7}{Deposit:: Kiilsgaard 1951 Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamph 85, P. 30}
Reporter	Miller, Pat J., Kauffman, John D.