Historic Value of Metal Production for Idaho, 1860-1980 Cumulative Totals by Mining Area
Extracted from "Gold Camps & Silver Cities (Nineteenth Century Mining in Central and Southern Idaho)," by Merle W. Wells
| Atlanta | $ 16,000,000 | Miller's Camp-Secesh | 500,000 | |
| Banner | 3,000,000 | Mineral City | 800,000 | |
| Bay Horse-Clayton | 42,000,000 | Muldoon | 200,000 | |
| Bear Valley | 12,800,000 | Neal | 2,000,000 | |
| Big Creek | 400,000 | Newsome-Golden | 2,940,000 | |
| Blackbird (Cobalt) | 49,000,000 | Orogrande | 640,000 | |
| Boise Basin | 60,000,000 | Owyhee | 90,000,000 | |
| Boise Ridge | 428,000 | Palouse | 340,000 | |
| Boise River | 450,000 | Patterson | 10,000,000 | |
| Buffalo Hump | 540,000 | Pearl | 400,000 | |
| Cariboo Mountain | 1,200,000 | Pend d'Oreille | 2,000,000 | |
| Clark's Fork | 2,500,000 | Pierce | 8,000,000 | |
| Coeur d'Alene | 3,845,732.000* | Porthill | 4,500,000 | |
| Deadwood | 1,200,000 | Rocky Bar-Pine | 6,090,000 | |
| Dixie (South Fork Clearwater) | 1,500,000 | Salmon River Bars | 2,500,000 | |
| Elk City | 16,000,000 | Seafoam-Greyhound | 400,000 | |
| Era and Martin | 400,000 | Seven Devils-Heath | 2,800,000 | |
| Florence | 9,600,000 | South Mountain | 1,900,000 | |
| Germania-Livingston | 650,000 | Stanley | 900,000 | |
| Gibbonsville | 2,000,000 | Stibnite | 53,000,000 | |
| Gilmore | 11,600,000 | Thunder Mountain | 500,000 | |
| Hailey Gold Belt | 1,000,000 | Ulysses | 600,000 | |
| Leadore | 300,000 | Vienna-Sawtooth City | 800,000 | |
| Leesburg | 5,420,000 | Viola | 2,500,000 | |
| Lemhi | 1,990,000 | Warren | 16,120,000 | |
| Little Lost River | 2,000,000 | Weiser Mercury | 8,000,000 | |
| Little Smoky | 1,200,000 | Wood River | 62,000,000 | |
| Long Valley | 3,500,000 | Yankee Fork | 12,000,000 |
*Value of metal production in the Coeur d'Alene mining district rose to $4.2 billion by the end of 1982.
Many of these totals are based largely upon reliable sources (usually Bureau of Mines or other governmental compilations), but some are of unknown accuracy. Most lode and dredge production figures are reliable, and almost all Idaho metal production is of those kinds. Less than 2% of the total production of $4,402,890,000 are from sources of uncertain accuracy. This table must be used with great caution, since mineral prices even For gold – varied greatly over the century the figures cover. Inflation has weighted the period since 1940 very heavily. Gold and silver prices after 1976 have fluctuated ten or twenty times as much. Boise Basin's gold values, for example, recently have risen to more than one or two billion dollars. Other major gold districts (Elk City, Florence, Leesburg, Pierce, Rocky Bar, Warren and Yankee Fork) have increased similarly. Silver prices have varied much more. Assignment of smelting values and federal support prices also affects some of these totals (such as Blackbird) to a marked degree.
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