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A specimen of stibnite. The Stibnite Mining District sits atop the Idaho Batholith, one of the signature features of Idaho’s unique geology.The Idaho Batholith is nearly 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2) of granite, formed from the collision of the oceanic plate and the North American Plate around 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. [10]
Mining communities in Idaho (5 P) Pages in category "Mining in Idaho" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... Gold Point Mill; M. Mine ...
The South Boise Historic Mining District, in Elmore County, Idaho and including Rocky Bar, Idaho, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It included eight contributing buildings and a contributing site on 8,640 acres (35.0 km 2 ), or about a ten square mile area.
Thompson Creek Mine (near Challis, Idaho) — The Thompson Creek Mine is a primary molybdenum mine located approximately 35 miles southwest of Challis in Idaho's Custer County, a historic mining area. Known as the Thompson Creek deposit, it was discovered in 1968 by Cyprus Minerals Corporation.
Wallace, Idaho is a city in and the county seat of Shoshone County, Idaho, [5] in the Silver Valley mining district of the Idaho Panhandle. Founded in 1884, Wallace sits alongside the South Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River (and Interstate 90). The town's population was 791 at the 2020 census.
Atlanta is an unincorporated community in the western United States, located in Elmore County, Idaho.. Historical Home in Atlanta. It was founded in 1864 during the Civil War as a gold and silver mining community and named by Southerners after a rumored Confederate victory over General Sherman in the Battle of Atlanta, which turned to be wholly false, but the name stuck.
The Sunshine Mine property had its beginning in 1884. [4] In September of that year two brothers, True and Dennis Blake, filed claim on a series of ore deposits in the Big Creek mining district in Shoshone County, Idaho. The Blake Brothers, as they are frequently collectively referred to, were natives of Maine.
The Rock Flat Placer is a small placer deposit in central Idaho which is part of the Meadows Mining District. [1] It is known to produce gold, corundum, garnet, zircon, monazite, chromite, ilmenite, magnetite, platinum, topaz, and spinel. [2] [3] Additionally, it is known to produce the occasional diamond, but the last one found was in the ...