| Nadoll, P., Mauk, J. L., Hayes, T. S., Koenig, A. E., Box, S. E. (2012) Geochemistry of Magnetite from Hydrothermal Ore Deposits and Host Rocks of the Mesoproterozoic Belt Supergroup, United States. Economic Geology, 107 (6) 1275-1292 doi:10.2113/econgeo.107.6.1275 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | geologic settings in western Montana and northern Idaho has distinct geochemical signatures: (1) greenschist...hydrothermal Ag-Pb-Zn veins of the Coeur d’Alene district, (4) extensively deformed and partially altered...Belt Supergroup host rocks from the Coeur d’Alene district, and (5) two Cretaceous postmetamorphic igneous...and host-rock magnetite from the Coeur d’Alene district. In contrast, magnetite from postmetamorphic igneous...magnetite. Hydrothermal magnetite from the Gold Hunter siderite vein shows characteristically high values for | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | hydrothermal silver-lead-zinc vein, Lucky Friday mine, Coeur d’Alene mining district, U.S.A. Patrick Nadoll* aNd...Zealand abstract The Coeur d’Alene mining district of northern Idaho is one of the major Ag-Pb-Zn producers...spectroscopy of samples from the Gold Hunter vein of the Lucky Friday mine revealed the presence of the rare...magnetite. An assemblage of galena, pyrite, and siderite is associated with the two iron oxides although...significantly. However, the veins in the Coeur d’Alene district formed well outside the wüstite stability field | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Origin of high-Ag fahlores from the Galena Mine, Wallace, Idaho, U.S.A. RICHARD O. SACK,1,2,* ROB FREDERICKS...Box 440, Wallace, Idaho 83873-0440, U.S.A. 4 2153B Old River Road, Kingston, Idaho 83839, U.S.A. 5 Department...fahlores from the Galena Mine of the Coeur d·Alene Mining District (Wallace, Idaho) have been found to be...yet found [molar Ag/(Ag + Cu) = 0.443] in the district, and forms a secondary overprint on any primary...obtained here indicate that the galena and fahlore-siderite stages of mineralization were virtually synchronous | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Ag-enrichment in fahlores from the Coeur dAlene mining district, Idaho, USA R. O. SACK1,*, S. M. KUEHNER1 1 2 AND...Seattle, WA, 98195 1310, USA Sunshine Precious Metals Inc., Kellogg, ID 83837, USA ABSTR ACT Tetrahedrite...Tetrahedrite fahlores from the Coeur d’Alene mining district (Idaho) have been found to be enriched in Ag by the...solid-state reaction may explain why previous district studies have been unable to demonstrate convincingly...tetrahedrite fahlores found in the Coeur d’Alene district and elsewhere, we conclude that the thermodynamic | | Fleck, R. J., Criss, R. E., Eaton, G. F., Cleland, R. W., Wavra, C. S., Bond, W. D. (2002) Age and Origin of Base and Precious Metal Veins of the Coeur D'Alene Mining District, Idaho. Economic Geology, 97 (1) 23-42 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.97.1.23 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Precious Metal Veins of the Coeur D’Alene Mining District, Idaho ROBERT J. FLECK,† U.S. Geological Survey...Kellogg, Idaho 83837 Abstract Ore-bearing quartz-carbonate veins of the Coeur d’Alene mining district yield...that the ore-bearing veins of the Coeur d’Alene district formed during the Cretaceous from components scavenged...Belt Supergroup, the primary host rocks of the district. Proterozoic Pb isotope ratios observed in galena...rocks decrease from the Coeur d’Alene district toward the Idaho and Kaniksu batholiths, approximately | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Ag-Pb-Zn Vein Mineralization in the Coeur d’Alene District, Idaho JEFFREY L. MAUK† Geology Department, University...Ag-Pb-Zn vein ore in the Coeur d’Alene district of northern Idaho. Although it had long been recognized...for most of the first 100 yr of mining in this district. In northern Idaho and western Montana, the Revett...middle, and upper members. In the Coeur d’Alene district, most ore production south of the regionally significant...Formation. Base metal veins in the Coeur d’Alene district occur in relatively thick, chemically reduced | | | Report (issue) | Idaho Mining and Exploration, 2010 Virginia S. Gillerman Earl H. Bennett Staff Report 2011-1 November...November 2011 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...83844-3014 Idaho Mining and Exploration, 2010 Virginia S. Gillerman Earl H. Bennett Staff Reports present...November 2011 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014..........................................1 Metal Mining .............................................. | | | Report (issue) | Ore Deposits of the Coeur d'Alene District Shoshone County, Idaho GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER... Ore Deposits of the Coeur d'Alene District Shoshone County, Idaho By VERNE C. FRYKLUND, ]R. With a section...section on THE BLEACHED ROCK IN THE COEUR D'ALENE DISTRICT By PAUL L. WEIS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...comprehensive study of the Coeur d'Alene mining district, Idaho UI\ITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...________________ _ Gem-Gold Hunter mineral belt ______________ _ Frisco ore shoot of the Frisco mine _______ _ Morning-Star | | | Report (issue) | Idaho Mining and Exploration, 2013 Virginia S. Gillerman Earl H. Bennett Staff Report S-15-2 August...August 2015 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho 875 Perimeter Drive MS...MS 3014 Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014 Phone 208-885-7991 IdahoGeology.org Idaho Mining and Exploration, 2013...S-15-2 August 2015 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho 875 Perimeter Drive...Drive MS 3014 Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014 Phone 208-885-7991 IdahoGeology.org Contents Introduction …… | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Coeur d'Alene Mining District Basedon Ore Depositsand StructuralData EARL H. BENNETT Idaho Bureauof Mines...Mines and Geology,Morrill Hall, Universityof Idaho, Moscow,Idaho 83843 AND RAMESH VENKATAKRISHNAN Department...resultsof two suchreconin the Coeur d'Alene mining district in Idaho exstructions, one basedon the mineral...productionfrom the Sunshine mine of more silver than the fabled Comstock of the district. An interpretation of...previouslydescribed.An analysisof fault movements in the district is also useful in explainingore-controlling structuresthat | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | VEINS ASSOCIATED WITH THE COEUR D’ALENE MINING DISTRICT, IDAHO AND WESTERN MONTANA: INSIGHTS FROM ISOTOPES...veins associated with the Coeur d’Alene mining district, Idaho and western Montana, constrain the age...concentrated in carbonate fractions of veins. Siderite and ankerite are light REE depleted and heavy...and mineralogical control, which in the case of siderite and ankerite favors the heavy REEs. Positive Eu...Belt-Purcell metasediments generated ore-barren siderite-, ankerite-, and, finally, calcite-dominant veins | | | Report (issue) | d'Alene District, Idaho and Montana Geochemical-Exploration Studies in the Coeur cTAlene District, Idaho...1116 The geochemistry of the Coeur d'Alene mining district, including the modifications that have been...1912Geochemical-exploration studies in the Coeur d'Alene District, Idaho and Montana. (Geological Survey Professional...40 I. Geochemical prospecting Coeur d'Alene Mining District. I. Cathrall, John B., joint author. II. Title........................................ Gem-Gold Hunter belt ............................... Rex-Snowstorm | | | Report (issue) | Idaho Mining and Exploration, 2011 Virginia S. Gillerman Earl H. Bennett Staff Report S-12-3 November...November 2012 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...83844-3014 Idaho Mining and Exploration, 2011 Virginia S. Gillerman Earl H. Bennett Staff Reports present...November 2012 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...………………………………………………………………………….... 1 Metal Mining …………………………………………………………………………. 4 Phosphate Mining …………………………………………………………………… | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Veins Associated with the Coeur d’Alene Mining District, Idaho PHILIP E. ROSENBERG† AND PETER B. LARSON...throughout and adjacent to the Coeur d’Alene mining district. Oxygen isotope ratios for quartz from the...ages previously reported for the Coeur d’Alene district, one Proterozoic age near 1 Ga and a younger age...hydrothermal veins in the Coeur d’Alene mining district, northern Idaho, have been debated for many years....associated with the quartz + siderite + sulfide veins of the Coeur d’Alene district was undertaken. Two types | | | Report (issue) | MILL TAILINGS IN THE COEUR D'ALENE MINING REGION, SHOSHONE COUNTY, IDAHO; PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES by Keith...1998 ABSTRACT The Coeur d'Alene mining region in northern Idaho has produced 34,300 metric tons of... The Coeur d'Alene mining region is the largest silver-producing mining district in the world, exceeding...exceeding even that of the Cerro Rico de Potosf district in Bolivia. Due to the relatively low grade of many...were introduced at the beginning of commercial mining operations in 1886. About 130 million metric tons | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | the Coeur d’Alene (Idaho, United States) and Keno Hill (Yukon Territory, Canada) mining districts demonstrate...that much of the Ag mined from the Coeur d’Alene district was originally present in galena. They also confirm...polymetallic ore deposits and a major source of Ag to the mining industry. Our interest in fahlore derives from...from the Coeur d’Alene and Keno Hill districts, mining districts that have diverse fahlore compositions...electrolyte solutions include fahlore, galena, siderite, and muscovite, and in some cases sphalerite, | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | IsotopicVariationsin the Lower ChesterVein, Sunshine Mine, Idaho RICHARD H. HARRIS, Newmont Exploration,327 FreeportBlvd...and lateral extent. THE Coeur d'Alene district of northern Idaho has rich Previouslyknownsulfurisotopicdata...Supergroupsedimentaryrocks.The veinshave the Lucky Friday and other mines in the district. simpleandunvaryingmineralogyandmay... Little is publishedcon- levels of the Sunshine mine. cerningthe chemistryand isotopiccompositions of...theirsignificance isdiscussed. abundances at the Lucky Friday mineandfoundthat The lower Chestervein wasselectedfor | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE COEUR D'ALENE MINING DISTRICT, IDAHO JAMES CONSTANTOPOULOS* Departmentof Geologyand...University of Idaho,Moscow,Idaho83843 Introduction Silverminingbeganin the Coeur d'Alene district (Fig. 1)...1) in 1885, and since then, the district has yieldedmorethan 3.11 x 107kg (109oz) of silver, significantquantitiesof...developmentof geneticmodelsfor the mineralization in the district reflects the evolution of think- ing in economicgeologyand...characteristics of the Belt rocks in the Coeur d'Alene district are summarized in Table i and are described in | | | Report (issue) | Mineralization in the Coeur d'Alene mining district, Shoshone County, Idaho consists principally of galena-sphalerite-...The district has produced in excess of 31,000 metric tons of silver, more than any other mining district...considered to be a distinct type unique to the district. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has not attempted...undiscovered resources of these metals in the district, or in other regions favorable for the discovery...press). Polymetallic veins in the Coeur d'Alene district are hosted by several clastic units of the Proterozoic | | Leach, D. L., Hofstra, A. H., Church, S. E., Snee, L. W., Vaughn, R. B., Zartman, R. E. (1998) Evidence for Proterozoic and Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary ore-forming events in the Coeur d'Alene District, Idaho and Montana; reply. Economic Geology, 93 (7) 1106-1109 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.93.7.1106 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | LATE THE COEUR D'ALENE CRETACEOUS-EARLY DISTRICT, IDAHO TERTIARY ORE-FORMING AND MONTANA--A EVENTS...tectonicrecrystallization. Ransomeand Calkins(1908) and district,reevaluation isjustified.New fieldobservations...(1964)ofpyrite(oldest), arseveinscontainonlyquartz,siderite, andsulfides. Earlygeolo- nopyrite, pyrrhotite...preexisting quartz, thelastepisode of plastic siderite, andsulfide veins,asfirstsuggested byRansome and...rocks, the high limited to data from the Sunshine mine in the Silver belt (Fleck et al., 1991; Eaton et | | | Report (issue) | Idaho Mining and Exploration, 2012 Virginia S. Gillerman Earl H. Bennett Staff Report S-15-1 May 2015...2015 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014 208-885-7991...208-885-7991 IdahoGeology.org Idaho Mining and Exploration, 2012 Virginia S. Gillerman Earl H. Bennett...May 2015 Idaho Geological Survey Morrill Hall, Third Floor University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho 83844-3014...……………………………………………………………………………… 1 Metal Mining …………………………………………………………………………… 5 Phosphate Mining ………………………………………………………………………… | | Leach, D. L., Hofstra, A. H., Church, S. E., Snee, L. W., Vaughn, R. B., Zartman, R. E. (1998) Evidence for Proterozoic and Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary ore-forming events in the Coeur d'Alene District, Idaho and Montana. Economic Geology, 93 (3) 347-359 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.93.3.347 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | THE COEUR LATE D'ALENE CRETACEOUS-EARLY DISTRICT, IDAHO TERTIARY ORE-FORMING EVENTS AND MONTANA...onseticite andleadisotope dataontetrahedtite, siderite, galena, bournonite, andstibnite, together withpreviously...Silverbentmines),antimonyveins(e.g., U.S. Antimony mine),andgold-beating quartzveins(Murry subdistrict)...1963; Langand linewhichextends fromCoeurd'Alene,Idaho,to Superior, Rice, 1985). In the southern part of...the Belt basin, intrusion Montana(Fig.2). of the Idaho batholith occurred predominantly in Cretaceous Despitenumerous | | | Report (issue) | Geology of the Coeur dl\lene District Shoshone County Idaho GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER ...' . Geology of the Coeur di\lene District Shoshone County Idaho By S. WARREN HOBBS, ALLAN B. GRIGGS...world's largest lead-, zinc-, and silverproducing mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...Subdivisipn of the Belt Series in the Coeur d'Alene district _____________________________________ _ Correlation...the Belt Series in and around the Coeur d'Alene district ________________________ _ Problems in mapping | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Geological Sciences, University of Idaho, Box 443022, Moscow, Idaho 83844-3022 Abstract The Snowbird...genetically to mineralization in the Coeur d’Alene district. Fluid inclusions in quartz, fluorite, ankerite...in the Cretaceous from fluids derived from the Idaho batholith and that, at least partially, equilibrated...and silver mineralization of the Coeur d’Alene district, which generally have been interpreted to have...Introduction THE COEUR D’ALENE mineral district of northern Idaho and Montana (Fig. 1) is well known for | | | Report (issue) | REVERE Fy -, . 56th Annual Report MINING INDUSTRY OF IDAHO for 1954 GEORGE EDWARD VIOLET 2 4... Governor of Idaho. Sir: In compliance with the provisions of Section 47-111, Idaho Code, I have...19 eee els Yi 17 33-41 SL oI anes a Maan Idaho Bureau of Mines, Directors Annual Leta et) 2 ...ek Cale TAD ER Bone ns me 8 sel ae eee dasa (Mine? rea Mey INIT agaee eae se eter igs Be EO Operations...2--2-225. ea, County Bear Lake Benewah ................ 96 (Sia stlinore; County, <=... 100 trankiineg |
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