Mine detail: Caribou Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 47.60096, -116.66025

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver
Tertiary: Zinc, Copper, Lead
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz
Orebody form: LENTICULAR
Discovery year: 1918

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:Prichard Form.-Quartzite
Host type:Quartz Monzonite,Quartzite
Associated rock:Quartz Monzonite
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite

References

MRDSW019462
MAS160550029
DEP10073400
Reference{Deposit:: Anderson, Alfred L., 1940 , Geology And Metalliferous Deposits Of Kootenai County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 53 , 67 P.}{Deposit:: Green, W. R., 1966 , Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Open - File Report, 1 P.}{Deposit:: Zartman, R. E., And Stacy, J. S., 1971 , Lead Isotopes And Mineralization Ages In Belt Supergroup Rocks, Northwestern Montana And Northern Idaho: Econ. Geology, V. 66 , No. 6 , P. 849 - 860}{Deposit:: Thomson And Others, 1925, Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 6}{Deposit:: Large, 1943, Science V 98, No 2556, P 560-561}
ReporterMiller, Pat J., Kauffman, John D.