Mine detail: Copper Prince Prospect

Previously called 'Black Prince'

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Location

Lat / long: 47.26817, -116.05882

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Copper
Ore: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Gold
Gangue: Calcite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Siderite
Orebody form: SEAMS AND STRINGERS, IRREGULAR BUNCHES

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:Lower Wallace Formation-Quartzitic Slate;St. Regis Form.-Quartzite, Argillite
Host type:Monzonite,Slate
Associated rock:Herrick Stock-Monzonite
Associated type:Monzonite
Structure:Complex Folding And Faulting (Nw - Se) Accompanied By Fracturing, Shearing, Jointing; Brecciation
Tectonic:Miogeosyncline
Alteration processes:Garnet, Scapolite

References

MRDSW019485
DEP10073414
Reference{Deposit:: WAGNER, W. R., 1949 , THE GEOLOGY OF PART OF THE SOUTH SLOPE OF THE ST. JOE MTNS.: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 82 , 48 P.}{Deposit:: HAYES, C. W., AND LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, 1911 , CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECON. GEOLOGY: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 470 , P. 39 - 61.}{Deposit:: COLLIER, A. J., 1906 , ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ST. JOE RIVER BASIN, IDAHO: U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 285 , P. 129 - 139}{Deposit:: WILSON, R. S., 1963 , GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION RECONNAISSANCE IN THE AVERY AREA, IDAHO: UNIV. OF IDAHO, M. S. THESIS, 81 P.}{Deposit:: 5) UMPLEBY, J. B., AND JONES, E. L., JR., 1923 , GEOLOGY OF SHOSHONE COUNTY, IDAHO: USGS BULL. 732 , P. 119.}{Deposit:: 6) SOPER, E. K., 1918 , THE MINING DISTRICTS OF NORTHERN IDAHO: MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS, V. 116 , P. 124}{Deposit:: 1906 OTHER A. J. COLLIER, BULL. 285}{Deposit:: 1911 OTHER HAYES AND LINDGREN, BULL. 470}{Deposit:: 1916 GEOLMAP UMPLEBY, J. B., AND JONES, E. L., JR., BULL. 732}{Deposit:: 1949 GEOLMAP IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 82}
ReporterMiller, Pat J.