Mine detail: Gold Hunter Mine

Previously called 'Hunter Ranch Property'

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Location

Lat / long: 47.48237, -115.78292

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Zinc, Lead
Secondary: Copper
Tertiary: Gold, Antimony
Ore: Galena, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Quartz, Siderite, Pyrite, Barite, Arsenopyrite
Orebody form: PINCH AND SWELL
Discovery year: 1884

Production

Operation type: Underground
Deposit type: HYDROTHERMAL VEIN AND REPLACEMENT
Production size: Medium
Development status: Producer
Production years: 1887-1893, 1895-1897, 1900-1952, 1954, 1997-Present (2005)
First production started: 1887

Geology

Host rock:Wallace Formation, St. Regis Formation, Revett Formation
Host type:Quartzite
Structure:Gold Hunter vein is hosted by a small fault sympathetic to the Osburn Fault immediately south of the mine.
Tectonic:Belt Basin
Alteration processes:Sericite; Disseminated carbonate forms halos around veins.

References

MRDSW026716
DEP10078405
Reference{Deposit:: UMPLEBY, J. B., AND JONES, E. L., JR., 1923 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF SHOSHONE COUNTY, IDAHO: USGS BULL. 732 , 156 P.}{Deposit:: FRYKLUND, V. C., JR., 1964 , ORE DEPOSITS OF THE COEUR *LENE DISTRICT, SHOSHONE COUNTY, IDAHO: USGS PROF. PAPER 445 , 103 P.}{Deposit:: RANSOME, F. L., AND CALKINS, F. C., 1908 , THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE COEUR *LENE DISTRICT, IDAHO: USGS PROF. PAPER 62 , 203 P.}{Deposit:: RANSOME, F. L., 1905 , ORE DEPOSITS OF THE COEUR *LENE DISTRICT, IDAHO: USGS BULL. 260 , P. 274 - 303 .}{Deposit:: Linforth, F.A., and Billingsley, Paul, 1916, Report on the Gold Hunter mine, Shoshone County, Idaho: Butte, Montana, Anaconda Copper Mining Co., 7 p. [Anaconda Collection 21703.01]}{Deposit:: Linforth, F.A., 1924, Report on Gold Hunter mine, Shoshone County, Idaho: Butte, Montana, Anaconda Copper Mining Co., 7 p. [Anaconda Collection 21703.01]}{Deposit:: Smith, E. Percy, 1913, Report on the property of the Gold Hunter Mining & Smelting Company, 21 p.}{Deposit:: Anderson, R.L., 2000, Geology of the Gold Hunter mine, Coeur *lene mining district, Shoshone County, Idaho: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 5, p. 2.}
ReporterLong, Keith R., Kauffman, John D., Hasler, J. William, Miller, Pat J.