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Idaho · Owyhee County
Occurrence

Tennessee Mountain Prospects

Owyhee County, Idaho, United States
Silver Gold
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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.