Mine detail: Eileen Mining Company Prospect

Previously called 'North Skin Creek Prospect'

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Location

Lat / long: 48.77317, -116.16296

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead
Tertiary: Copper, Silver
Ore: Copper, Galena
Gangue: Quartz
Orebody form: SEAMS

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Production size: None
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Wallace Formation-Quartzite
Host type:Gabbro,Quartzite
Associated rock:Purcell Sill-Metagabbro
Associated type:Gabbro
Structure:Vein On Contact; Near Moyie Fault

References

MRDSW007769
MAS160210028
DEP10093417
Reference{Deposit:: Kirkham, Virgil R. D., And Ellis, Ernest W., 1926, Geology And Ore Deposits Of Boundary County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Bulletin, No. 10, 78 P.}{Deposit:: Zartman, R. E., And Stacey, J. S., 1971, Lead Isotopes And Mineralization Ages In Belt Supergroup Rocks, Northwestern Montana And Northern Idaho: Econ. Geol., V. 66, P. 849 - 860.}{Deposit:: 1926 Geolmap Idaho Bureau Of Mines & Geol. Bulletin 1}{Deposit:: U.S. Bureau Of Mines-Wilderness Rept-1974}
ReporterMiller, Pat J., Kauffman, John D.