Mine detail: Yellow Jacket Mine

Previously called 'Yellowjacket Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 44.98738, -114.52033

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Gold
Tertiary: Lead, Copper
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena
Gangue: Pyrite, Quartz, Specularite
Orebody form: STRINGERS
Discovery year: 1868

Production

Operation type: Surface
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small
Development status: Producer
Production years: 1893 - 1897 , 1902 - 1949
First production started: 1987

Geology

References

MRDSW013905
MAS160590343
DEP10070808
Reference{Deposit:: Anderson, Alfred L., 1953, Gold - Copper - Lead Deposits Of The Yellowjacket District, Lemhi County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 94, 41 P.}{Deposit:: Griner, W. C., 1974, Seventy - First Annual Report Of The Mining Industry Of Idaho For 1973 - 1974, 98 P.}{Deposit:: The Wallace Miner, Aug. 26 , 1976 , P. 2}{Deposit:: 1953 Recon Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 94}{Deposit:: 1974 Compile State Mine Inspecto* Ann. Rept.}{Deposit:: 1976 Direxpl Cyprus Mines Corp., Wallace Miner, Aug. 26 , 1976}{Deposit:: American Mines Handbook, 1996, P234.}{Deposit:: Randol Mining Directory, 1996/97, U.S. Mines and Mining Companies, P. 203.}{Production:: Anderson, A. L., 1953, Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 94, 41 P.}
ReporterBuckingham, David A., Miller, Pat J.