Mine detail: Whale Mine

Previously called 'Mulcahy'

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Location

Lat / long:

44.44178, -114.75173

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Tertiary:	Silver
Ore:	Argentite
Gangue:	Chalcedony, Pyrite, Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host type:	Tuff
Associated rock:	Challis Volcanics-Andesitic Tuffs;Casto Volcanics-Rhyolite Porphyry
Associated type:	Tuff
Alteration processes:	Sericitized

References

MRDS	W014270
MAS	160370262
DEP	10071066
Reference	{Deposit:: Anderson, A. L., 1949, Silver - Gold Deposits Of The Yankee Fork District, Custer County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 83, 37 P}{Deposit:: Jacobs, M.H., 1902, Report Of The Mining Districts Of Idaho For The Year 1901, P. 24-26.}{Deposit:: U.S. Bureau Of Mines Open-File Report MLA 6-91, 1991, Table A-3, No. 469, P. 217.}{Production:: Anderson, A. L., 1949, Ida. Bureau Of Mines & Geol. Pamphlet 83, P. 34.}
Reporter	Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), McHugh, Edward L.