Mineral Hill Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA

Rich specimen of chalcopyrite with cobaltite in this sawn example.

© Dana Slaughter Minerals

Cut & lightly polished, rich Co ore showing silvery metallic cobaltite with yellow metallic chalcopyrite in a dark grayish-black matrix.

© Bill Hamel

A small piece of pyrite from the upper workings of the Grunter. Most of the sulfides here were not as coarse or solid.

The old shop and top of the mill at the Grunter.

A mostly buried ore car in the Big Lead

The open pit of the Grunter Mine. Ore was removed from an adit below.

Looking out from the Gold Dollar mine down Owl Creek.

A view of a decaying ore bin hidden among the pine trees at the Grunter Mine, Lemhi Co., ID. The Grunter Mine was a former Au mine located near Shoup, ID within the Mineral Hill Mining District, which is now part of the Salmon-Challis National Forest. The host rock at the Grunter mine is gneiss, interlayered with quartzite and schist. The ore ...

© Bill Hamel

What looks like a very small tram tower on the cliff below the Big Lead.

Some burned scraps at the Gold Dollar Mine. The fittings appear to be parts of a wooden ore car and some bellows.