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Lone Wolf and Cataract Mine

Producer in Madison county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010535
MRDS ID D004298
Record type Site
Current site name Lone Wolf and Cataract Mine
Alternate or previous names Cataract and Lone Wolf Mine
Related records 10148637

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.97169, 45.65684 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438
Relative position 3.5 MILES FROM PONY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madison(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pony(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jefferson(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Madison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 002S 003W 16 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ON RIDGE BETWEEN CATARACT CREEK AND HEADWATERS OF PONY CREEK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Gangue
Sphalerite Gangue

Analytical data

Result SHIPMENTS WERE ASSAYED AT $12 TO $60 A TON IN GOLD AND SILVER (1937)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Tobacco Root Batholith-Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Tobacco Root Batholith-Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Pre Belt Gneiss
    Rock description Pre Belt Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.97169, 45.65684
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Tobacco Root Batholith, Nw-Trending Faults

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pony District

Comments on the production information

  • SOME ORE WAS SHIPPED FROM DEVELOPMENT. (1937)

Comments on the workings information

  • TRENCHES, TUNNELS AND SHAFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LORAIN, S, 1937, GOLD LODE MINING-TOBACCO ROOT MTNS, MADISON MONT, USBM INF. CIRC. 6972, P.38

  • Deposit

    1937 COMPILE USBM INF. CIRC. 697

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1980 Doyle, Brien (Wells, John) U.S. Geological Survey

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