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Bunker Hill Mine (Tyler; Stemwinder; Bunker Hill and Sullivan; Bunker Chance Mine), Bunker Hill Properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA

Cerussite
Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill Properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA

Photo: Rob Lavinsky
Latitude: 47°30'42"N
Longitude: 116°8'39"W
A lead-zinc-silver-phosphoric acid mine owned by Bunker Hill Mining Co. Inc. Operated for almost 100 years starting about 1881 and closed 1981. Restarted 1988 but closed forever. US Army Corps of Engineers awarded the contract to reclaim the entire site.

References

- Rocks & Minerals: 60:294
- Rocks & Minerals: 63:135
- Dana 6:1092
- Mineral Yearbook (1988)-Zinc:2-3.
- Radford, N. and Crowley, J.A. (1981). "The Bunker Hill mine Kellogg, Shoshone county, Idaho." Mineralogical Record, 12(6),pp:339-347.
- Ream, Lanny L. 2004. Idaho Minerals, 2nd edition, Revised and Updated, p.6

Mineral List

Acanthite
Anglesite
Ankerite
Baryte
Boulangerite
Bournonite
Calcite
Caledonite
Cerussite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Copper
Covellite
Galena
Goethite
Gypsum
Hemimorphite
Hydrocerussite
Limonite
Linarite
Massicot
Mimetite
Plattnerite
Pyrargyrite
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Pyromorphite
Quartz
Siderite
Silver
Smithsonite
Sphalerite
Stephanite
Tetrahedrite
Wulfenite


35 entries listed. 33 valid minerals.

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