The Keystone Mine is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Custer county, Idaho at an elevation of 8,599 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 8,599 Feet (2,621 Meters)
Commodity: Fluorine-Fluorite
Lat, Long: 44.4453, -114.32750
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Keystone Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Keystone Mine
Secondary: Greyhound
Commodity
Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Beryllium
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Lead
Location
State: Idaho
County: Custer
District: Bayhorse District
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.
Administrative Organization: Challis National Forest
Holdings
Type: Patented
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Chambers, Arthur E.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Tucson, AZ
Info Year: 1976
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Discovery Year: 1877
Discovery Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Northern Rocky Mountains
Physiographic Detail: Salmon River Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: TABULAR, BRECCIA FILL & FISSURE VEIN, STOCKWORK
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration: MODERATE SILICIFICATION
Rocks
Name: Dolomite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cambrian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Barite
Unknown: Tetrahedrite
Comments
Comment (Location): Head of Whetstone Gulch, South of Garden Creek
Comment (Reserve-Resource): 12-76 Resource Quantity-Grade Estimate On Matrix Record She Taken From Reference Cited In 701. 12-76 Capital and Operating Costs Estimated From Reference C Record 702 With Adjustments For Size & Type of Operations Pr 12-76 Recovery of Some By-Product Silver May Be Possible But Included In the Proposed Operation Or Cost Estimates.
References
Reference (Deposit): Anderson, 1954, Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 101, P. 12
Reference (Deposit): Ross, C. P., 1937, Geology And Ore Deposits Of The Bayhorse Region, Custer County, Idaho: USGS Bulletin 877, 161 P
Reference (Deposit): 1937 Geolmap Ross, C. P., Bulletin 87
Reference (Production): Ross, C. P., 1937, Geology And Ore Deposits Of The Bayhorse Region, Custer County, Idaho: USGS Bulletin 877, 161 P., P. 116
Reference (Deposit): Chambers 1966 Phd Dissertation, Univ Of Arizona, 154 P.
Reference (Deposit): McIlroy, Coffman, Rice, & Hibpshman 1974 USBM Ic 8646
Reference (Deposit): Shawe & Others 1976 USGS Prof Paper 933 P 35-38
Reference (Deposit): U.S. Bureau Of Mines Open-File Report MLA 6-91, 1991, Table A-2, No. 258, P. 168.
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