Mine detail: Big Falls Creek Deposit

Previously called 'Giant Quartz No. 1White Elephant'

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Location

Lat / long:

43.85909, -114.23651

Resource(M)

Primary:	Tungsten
Tertiary:	Molybdenum, Silver, Gold
Ore:	Wolframite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	None
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Phi Kappa Formation-Argillite, Quartzite
Host type:	Quartzite,Argillite
Associated rock:	Sawtooth Batholith-Quartz Monzonite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite
Alteration processes:	Fe Stains

References

MRDS	W013647
MAS	160370100
DEP	10070633
Reference	{Deposit:: Cook, E. F., 1956, Tungsten Deposits Of South - Central Idaho; Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 108, P. 31-32}{Deposit:: 1955 Geolmap Idaho Bureau Of Mines & Geol. Pamphlet 10}{Deposit:: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1497-D, 1981, Table 18, No. 11, P. 219.}{Deposit:: U.S. Bureau Of Mines Open-File Report MLA 6-91, 1991, Table A-3, No. 544, P. 234.}
Reporter	Tuchek, Steigner, William D.; Miller, Pat, Ridenour, James