Mine detail: Prichard Creek Placer

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 47.59929, -115.7959

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Ore: Gold
Discovery year: 1879

Production

Operation type: Placer
Deposit type: PLACER
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Production years: 1884-1890, 1900-1907, 1909, 1917-1926, 1932-1942, 1946
First production started: 1884
Last production ended: 1946

Geology

Host type:Sand and Gravel

References

MAS160790573
DEP10280938
Reference{Deposit:: Dart, W., 1958, Gold-bearing gravels near Murray, Idaho: Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology Pamphlet 116, 21 p.}{Deposit:: Cranston, ?, 1904?, Report on Coeur *lene Mng. Co., 14 p.}{Development:: Smith, R.W., 1932, History of placer and quartz gold mining in the Coeur *lene District: Moscow, University of Idaho, M.A. Thesis, 132 p.}{Development:: Rickard, T.A., 1920, The Bunker Hill enterprise, IV; The old diggings and modern dredging operations: Mining and Scientific Press, v. 120, no. 6, p. 185-194.}
ReporterLong, Keith R., Lowe, Nathan T.