Mine detail: Abundance Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

44.56656, -117.016

Resource(M)

Primary:	Iron
Tertiary:	Gold, Silver, Copper
Gangue:	Jasper, Pyrite, Quartz
Orebody form:	BLANKET
Discovery year:	1895

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1918

Geology

Host rock:	Martin Bridge Formation-Marble, Tactite
Host type:	Marble,Greenstone,Andesite
Associated rock:	Seven Devils Group-Greenstone;Granodiorite Or Granite;Andesite;Mio-Plio
Associated type:	Diorite,Greenstone,Andesite
Structure:	High-Angle Faulting And Westward Tilting Of The Fault Blocks., Unconformity Between The Andesite Flows And The Greenstone And Marble Formations.
Tectonic:	Geosynclinal Folding; Island Arc
Alteration processes:	Secondary Copper Enrichment In The Sulfides.

References

MRDS	W012976
DEP	10070222
Reference	{Deposit:: BELL, R. N., 1919, TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF IDAHO FOR THE YEAR 1918, P. 108.}{Deposit:: MACKIN, J. H., 1953, IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF THE IRON MOUNTAIN DISTRICT: USGS BULL. 982-E, P. 146.}{Deposit:: MACKIN, J.H., 1947, IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF THE IRON MOUNTAIN DISTRICT, WASHINGTON COUNTY, IDAHO: USGS OPEN-FILE REPT., 23 P.}{Deposit:: 1919 COMPILE 20TH ANN. REPT MINING INDUSTRY}{Deposit:: 1947 RECON MACKIN, J.H., OPEN-FILE REPT.}{Deposit:: 1953 GEOLMAP MACKIN, J.H., BULL. 982-E, P. 124,126,135,137,146-148; PL. 17.}
Reporter	Nakai, Terry L.; Miller, Pat, Winters, Dick