Idaho · Owyhee County
Occurrence
Tennessee Mountain Prospects
Owyhee County, Idaho, United States
Silver Gold
Land & claims · BLM · live
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Surface manager + active mining claims at this point, live from BLM. The "open to location" notes are a general 1872-Mining-Law guide, not BLM output — decision-support only; verify with BLM MLRS and on the ground before staking or entry.
Commodities
TertiarySilver, Gold
Commodity typeMetallic
Deposit
Deposit typeVein
Deposit sizeN
WorkingsSurface/Underground
Orebody formSTRINGERS
Ore controlFaults, Fractures
Materials
Ore mineralsGold
GanguePyrite, Quartz
Geology
Host rockRhyolite
Associated rockRhyolite,Basalt · Silver City Rhyolite-Rhyolite;Basalt Latite Unit-Basalt And Latite
StructureGouge; Brecciation
AlterationSilicification
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
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References
ASHER, R. R., 1968, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF A PORTION OF THE SILVER CITY REGION, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 138, 106 P1968 GEOLMAP IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES & GEOL. PAMPHLET 13
Identification
Deposit ID10069931
MRDS IDW007720
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates43.04905, -116.77986
Base: USGS MRDS (public domain, frozen 2011). Community notes © their authors, CC-BY. Land data live from BLM.