Lucile Bar Placer

The Lucile Bar Placer is a gold mine located in Idaho county, Idaho at an elevation of 1,601 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Lucile Bar Placer

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Platinum

Location

State: Idaho
County: Idaho
District: Lucile-Sampson Districts

Land Status

Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Wakely Brothers
Years: 1937 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Stream Placer
Operation Type: Placer
Year First Production: 1862
Discovery Year: 1862
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Northern Rocky Mountains
Physiographic Detail: Clearwater Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

Form: STREAM SEDIMENT DEPOSITS

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Quartzite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pleistocene

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: PT=$144/TON (4.8 OZ/TON, 1,780 PPM), AU=$11,120/TON (538 OZ/TON, 1.8%) IN CONCENTRATES, CONCENTRATION NOT KNOWN. GOLD IS 850-865 FINE.

Materials

Ore: Gold

Comments

Comment (Development): Small Placers Operated Only When There Was Sufficient Water. Closed Down After 1930'S

Comment (Deposit): Placers Included Both Bench And Modern Stream Gravels, The Bench Gravels Are Prominent

Comment (Workings): Hand And Hydraulic Mining, Some Old Drift Mines

Comment (Geology): Bedrock Is Mostly Schist And Some Nearby Limestone. Gold Source Is Possibly Granitic Bedrock To The East By Florence.

Comment (Deposit): Record W028094 Has Been Merged And Deleted.

Comment (Location): In Nezperce National Forest. On East Side Of Salmon River At Lucile. Location Given Is Bridge Crossing River At Lucile. Adit Symbols South Of Lucile May Represent Some Of The Drift Mining Of The Older Benches

Comment (Commodity): Gold Is Very Fine Grained, Some Small Nuggets From Streams; Gold From Older Bench Gravels Is More Variable

Comment (Geology): Entrapment By Irregularities In Stream Bed Or Deposition In Low-Energy Part Of Stream

References

Reference (Deposit): Lorain, S.H., And Metzger, O.H., 1938, Reconnaissance Of Placer Mining Districts In Idaho County, Idaho: U.S. Bureau Of Mines Information Circular 7023, P. 79-86.

Reference (Deposit): Hubbard, C.R., 1955, A Survey Of Mineral Resources Of Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 105, P. 25-26.

Reference (Deposit): Ross, C.P., 1941, The Metal And Coal Mining Districts Of Idaho, With Notes On The Nonmetallic Mineral Resources Of The State: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 57, P. 60.

Reference (Deposit): Day, D.T., And Richards, R.H., 1906, Useful Minerals In The Black Sands Of The Pacific Slope: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Resources Of The United States, Calendar Year 1905, P. 1225-1226.

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