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Epigenetic lead, zinc, silver, antimony, tin, and gold veins in Boulder Basin, Blaine and Custer Counties, Idaho: Potential for economic tin mineralization

Bulletin 2064-JJ
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https://doi.org/10.3133/b2064JJ

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Abstract

Boulder Basin is in a northwest-trending belt of allochthonous Paleozoic rocks in the Boulder Mountains of central Idaho. Regional Tertiary extension resulted in widespread normal faulting and coeval emplacement of shallow-level intrusions and extrusive rocks of the Challis Volcanic Group. Epigenetic lead-zinc-silver-antimony-tin-gold vein deposits formed during Tertiary extension and are hosted within Paleozoic strata. The major orebodies are in the lower plate of the Boulder Basin thrust fault, in massive quartzite of the Middle Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian Wood River Formation. Anomalous concentrations of tin are present in the base-metal mineral assemblage of the Boulder Basin ore deposits. The tin-bearing veins in Boulder Basin are strikingly similar to Bolivian tin deposits. The deposit model for Bolivian tin deposits identifies buried tin porphyry below the tin-bearing vein system.

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Ratchford, M.E., 2002, Epigenetic lead, zinc, silver, antimony, tin, and gold veins in Boulder Basin, Blaine and Custer Counties, Idaho: Potential for economic tin mineralization (Version 1.0): U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2064, iii, 15 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/b2064JJ.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Epigenetic lead, zinc, silver, antimony, tin, and gold veins in Boulder Basin, Blaine and Custer Counties, Idaho: Potential for economic tin mineralization
Series title Bulletin
Series number 2064
Chapter JJ
DOI 10.3133/b2064JJ
Edition Version 1.0
Year Published 2002
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description iii, 15 p.
Country United States
State Idaho
County Blaine County, Custer County
Other Geospatial Boulder Basin
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