Mine detail: Snowbird Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

45.15798, -115.41037

Resource(M)

Primary:	Tungsten
Tertiary:	Copper, Gold, Silver
Ore:	Acanthite, Chalcopyrite, Digenite, Electrum, Galena, Huebnerite, Scheelite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stolzite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Apatite, Fluorite, Muscovite, Pyrite, Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR, IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1942

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1944

Geology

Host rock:	Quartz-Feldspar Gneiss
Host type:	Gneiss
Associated rock:	Profile Gap-Smith Creek Dike Swarm-Dacite Dikes;Idaho Batholith-Quartz Monzonite
Associated type:	Dacite
Structure:	Minor Faults With N-Ne Strike
Alteration processes:	Silicification, Oxidation

References

MRDS	W014895
DEP	10071479
Reference	{Deposit:: KIRKPATRICK, G. E., 1974, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BIG CREEK AREA, VALLEY AND IDAHO COUNTIES, IDAHO: MOSCOW, IDAHO, UNIV. OF IDAHO, M.S. THESIS, P. 46 - 47}{Deposit:: COOK, E. F., 1956, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 108, 40 P.}{Deposit:: HOBBS, S. W., 1964, MINERAL RESOURCE-TUNGSTEN, IN MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY SPEC. REPT. NO. 1, P. 223 - 233.}{Deposit:: LEONARD, B. F., AND OTHERS, 1968 , SILVER - RICH DISSEMINATED SULFIDES FROM A TUNGSTEN - BEARING QUARTZ LODE, BIG CREEK DISTRICT, CENTRAL IDAHO: USGS PROF. PAPER 594 - C.}{Deposit:: 1956 RECON IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 108}{Deposit:: 1964 COMPILE IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY SPEC. REPT. NO. 1}{Deposit:: 1968 GEOCHEM B. F. LEONARD AND OTHERS, PROF. PAPER 594-C}{Production:: KIRKPATRICK, G. E., 1974, UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO M.S. THESIS, P 46}
Reporter	Duncan, Daniel G. (Miller, Pat)