Mine detail: South Mountain Mine

Previously called 'GolcondaTexasLaxeyExploration Company of CaliforniaSonneman'

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Location

Lat / long: 42.74158, -116.91127

Resource(M)

Tertiary: Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
Other material: Chalcopyrite, Diopside, Epidote, Galena, Garnet, Hedenbergite, Ilvaite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Discovery year: 1872

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1950

Geology

References

MRDSD001443
MAS160730005
DEP10192871
Reference{Deposit:: SORENSON RE 1927 ID B M&GEOL PAM22P42}{Deposit:: PROD: UNKNOWN}{Deposit:: PIPER & LANEY 1926 ID BUR MINES & GEOL BULL 11}{Deposit:: LINDGREN 1900 USGS 20TH ANN REPT}{Deposit:: BENNETT & GALBRAITH 1975 ID BUR MINES & GEOL PAMPH 162 88 P}{Deposit:: USBM WFOC MIN PROP FILE 235.10 SPOKANE, WASH}{Deposit:: SHANON 1918 AMER JOUR SCI 4TH SERIES V 45 P 118-125 NO. 266}{Deposit:: BELL 1907 8TH ANN REPT MIN IND IDAHO FOR 1906, BOISE, IDA}{Deposit:: BELL 1908 9TH ANN REPT MIN IND IDAHO FOR 1907, BOISE, IDA}{Deposit:: BELL 1912 13TH ANN REPT MIN IND IDAHO FOR 1911, BOISE, IDA}{Deposit:: BELL 1913 14TH ANN REPT MIN IND IDAHO FOR 1912, BOISE, IDA}{Deposit:: BELL 1907 ENG & MIN JOUR V 83 P 283-284}{Deposit:: MOORE 1910 11TH ANN REPT MIN IND IDAHO FOR 1909, BOISE, IDA}{Deposit:: 32ND ANN. REPT. MIN. IND. IDAHO FOR 1930, P.192.}{Deposit:: MSHA RPT MAY 1983}
ReporterKauffman, John D.