Mine detail: Yellow Jacket Group

Previously called 'Yellowjacket Nos. 1-8'

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Location

Lat / long: 45.19516, -115.08874

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper, Lead, Zinc
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Malachite
Gangue: Pyrite, Quartz
Orebody form: PODS
Discovery year: 1906

Production

Operation type: Underground
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:Yellowjacket Formation-Quartzite
Host type:Quartzite
Associated rock:Ramey Ridge Equivalent-Dark-Colored Gneissic Intrusive Rocks
Associated type:Gneiss
Alteration processes:Gouge; Fe And Mn Oxides

References

MRDSW015230
MAS160490602
DEP10071704
Reference{Deposit:: CATER, F. W., AND OTHERS, 1973, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE IDAHO PRIMITIVE AREA AND VICINITY, IDAHO: USGS BULL. 1304, 431 P.}{Deposit:: USBM, 1975, ACTIVITY OF IDAHO MINING PROPERTIES, 1974, USBM, BOISE, IDAHO, 61 P.}{Deposit:: 1973 RECON F. W. CATER AND OTHERS, BULL. 1304}{Deposit:: 1975 COMPILE USBM, ACTIVITY OF IDAHO MINING PROPERTIES}{Deposit:: IDAHO PRIMITIVE AREA AND VICINITY, IDAHO; USGS BULLETIN 1304 1973, P. 167, 170-173.}
ReporterMiller, Pat J.