Mine detail: Comeback Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 44.00849, -115.89263

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Zinc, Lead
Secondary: Gold, Copper
Ore: Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Silver, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Pyrite, Quartz
Discovery year: 1920

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1928

Geology

Host type:Quartz Monzonite,Diorite
Associated rock:Idaho Batholith-Granodiorite, Quartz Monzonite;Porphyry Dikes
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite,Diorite
Alteration processes:Sericitized

References

MRDSW014412
DEP10090093
Reference{Deposit:: ROSS, C. P., 1934, SOME LODE DEPOSITS IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE BOISE BASIN, IDAHO: USGS BULL 846-D, PP. 239-285.}{Deposit:: USBM, 1975, ACTIVITY OF IDAHO MINING PROPERTIES, 1974: USBM, BOISE, IDAHO, 61 P.}{Deposit:: ANDERSON, A. L., 1947, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF BOISE BASIN, IDAHO: USGS BULL. 944-C, P. 119 - 319.}{Deposit:: CAMPBELL, A., 1945, FORTY - SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF IDAHO FOR THE YEAR 1944.}{Deposit:: 5) BELL, R. N., 1935, THE GOLD RESOURCES OF IDAHO: MINING AND CONTRACTING REVIEW, V. 37, NO. 33, P. 6-7.}{Deposit:: 1934 GEOLMAP ROSS, C. P., BULL. 846 - D}{Deposit:: 1945 COMPILE 46TH ANN. IDAHO STATE INSPECTO* REPT., 1944}{Deposit:: 1947 GEOLMAP ANDERSON, A. L., BULL. 944-C.}{Deposit:: 1975 COMPILE USBM, MINING ACTIVITY LIST, 1974}{Production:: ITEM 1, CAMPBELL, A., 1945, 46TH ANNUAL REPORT; ITEM 8, BELL, R. N., 1935, MINING AND CONTRACTING REVIEW, V. 37, NO. 33}
ReporterSiefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat)