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Jung Frau

Past Producer in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Barium-Barite
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010827
MRDS ID D004816
Record type Site
Current site name Jung Frau
Related records 10220645

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.34396, 45.00406 (WGS84)
Elevation 2195
Relative position 25 MILES WEST OF ARMSTEAD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Coyote Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salmon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Red Rock(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Beaverhead

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 009S 014W 32 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • W. 1/2 OF SE 1/4, SECTION 32.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Brecciation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Gneiss
    Rock description Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoarchean
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoarchean

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.34396, 45.00406
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form NARROW STRINGERS
    Strike N 40 W
    Dip 35 SW
    Width 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Monument (Bloody Dick, Beaverhead) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. A. Wellborn
    Home office Grant
    First year 1972

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 10.67M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SURFACE CUT AND TWO ADITS. ONE ADIT IS CAVED (1972) AND THE OTHER IS INCLINED, AND DRIVEN 35-FT. INTO THE SHEAR ZONE.

Comments on development

  • ONE PATENTED CLAIM

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85, P. 32

  • Deposit

    1972 COMPILE M.B.M.G. BULL. 8

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SHEAR ZONE IS 2-5 FT. WIDE WITH QUARTZ AND BARITE VEINS FROM 1/2 TO 3 INCHES WIDE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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