Mine detail: Charles Dickens Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 44.38929, -114.71783

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Gold
Tertiary: Copper, Zinc, Lead
Ore: Argentite, Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite
Gangue: Pyrite, Quartz
Discovery year: 1875

Production

Operation type: Underground
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1875

Geology

Host type:Tuff,Andesite
Associated rock:Challis Volcanics-Andesite, Tuff
Associated type:Tuff,Andesite
Alteration processes:Sericitized

References

MRDSW014307
DEP10071092
Reference{Deposit:: UMPLEBY, J. B., 1913, SOME ORE DEPOSITS IN NORTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY, IDAHO: USGS BULL. 539, 104 P.}{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:: STILES, C. A., 1976 , GEOLOGY AND ALTERATION OF THE WEST FORK MAYFIELD CREEK AREA, CUSTER COUNTY, IDAHO: MOSCOW, IDAHO, UNIV. OF IDAHO M.S. THESIS, P. 103 - 106 .}{Deposit:: ROSS, C. P., 1927 , ORE DEPOSITS IN THE TERTIARY LAVA IN THE SALMON RIVER MOUNTAINS, IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 25 , 20 P.}{Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 6-91, 1991, TABLE A-3, NO. 435, P. 208.}{Deposit:: 1927 OTHER IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPH 25}{Deposit:: 1949 RECON IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPH 83}
ReporterSiefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), McHugh, Edward L.