Mine detail: Continental Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 44.37459, -114.66953

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Zinc, Lead, Copper
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Pyrargyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Calcite, Pyrite, Quartz

Production

Operation type: Underground
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1878

Geology

Host type:Andesite
Associated rock:Challis Volcanics-Andesite
Associated type:Andesite

References

MRDSW014319
MAS160370308
DEP10071101
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:: 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:: Jacobs, M.H., 1902, Report Of The Mining Districts Of Idaho For The Year 1901, P. 23.}{Deposit:: U.S. Bur. Mines Open-File Report MLA 6-91, 1991, Table A-3, No. 448, P. 211.}{Production:: Anderson, A. L., 1949, Idaho Bureau of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 83, P. 26.}
ReporterSiefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), McHugh, Edward L.