The Rescue Mine is a gold mine located in Idaho county, Idaho.
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Rescue Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Rescue Mine
Secondary: Standard
Secondary: Idaho Standard Mines Co.
Secondary: Unity
Secondary: Miller
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: Idaho
County: Idaho
District: Warren 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: Payette National Forest
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Kimberly Gold Mines
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: 605 East 8th Street Unit C Post Falls ID 83854
Info Year: 2004
Years: 2004 -
Owner Name: Idaho Rand, Inc.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Underground
Year First Production: 1868
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
Model Name: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Form: VEINLETS, LENTICULAR
Structure
Type: L
Structure: Banding
Description: Banding
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration: Sericitization
Alteration Text: Sericitization
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Name: Granodiorite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: SOME SELECTED ORE SAMPLES ASSAYED $7000/TON
Analytical Data: ORE AVE, $20 - 50/TON
Materials
Ore: Tetrahedrite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Argentite
Ore: Sphalerite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Production): $13,000 Au Was Produced In 1969. Item 8 $200,000.
Comment (Deposit): Parallel System Of Veins
Comment (Development): Up Until 1917 Known As Rescue Mine; 1917 Known As Standard Mine; Another Source States Rescue Mine Was The Idaho Standard Mines Company From 1913-1918; After Then, Known As Rescue Mine Again.
Comment (Workings): Crosscuts, Drifts, Tunnels, Stopes; Mostly Inaccessible
Comment (Location): S. Side Warren Creek
References
Reference (Deposit): Reed, J. C., 1937, Geology And Ore Deposits Of The Warren Mining District, Idaho County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 45, 65 P.
Reference (Deposit): Pointon, S. J., 1921, Warren Mining District: Northwest Mining Truth, V. 6, No. 13, P. 3 - 4.
Reference (Deposit): Griner, W. C., 1975, Seventy First Annual Report Of The Mining Industry Of Idaho For 1973 - 1974, 90 P.
Reference (Deposit): 1937 Geolmap Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 45
Reference (Deposit): 1975 Compile State Mine Inspector'S Annual Rept.
Reference (Production): Reed, J. C., 1937, Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 45
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