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Berlin Claims

Past Producer in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010839
MRDS ID D004833
Record type Site
Current site name Berlin Claims
Related records 10124179

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.70256, 45.67296 (WGS84)
Elevation 1634
Relative position 3 MILES NNW OF MELROSE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Melrose(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Hole(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 002S 009W 10,15 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4 OF SW 1/4, SECTION 10, ALSO IN 15

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation, Sericite, Recrystallization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Lcret-Tert Granitic Intrusive Outlier
    Rock description Lcret-Tert Granitic Intrusive Outlier
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Kootenai;Colorado Formation
    Rock description Kootenai;Colorado Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.70256, 45.67296
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Boulder Batholith

Ore body information

  • General form POCKETS
    Strike N 75 W
    Dip 67 NE
    Width 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Zone, Sheared Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Melrose District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Olympia Tumwater Foundation

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 106.68M
    Overall depth 25.91M

Comments on the workings information

  • AN OLD SHAFT, NOW CAVED, AND AN ADIT. A SMALL PROSPECT PIT NW OF THE SHAFT EXPOSES THE VEIN. 250-FT. ADIT WITH 70-FT CROSSCUT DOES NOT EXPOSE VEIN.

Comments on development

  • CLAIM WAS PATENTED IN 1890.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 574, P. 95-96.

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85, P. 146.

  • Deposit

    DIR. OF MINT REPT, 1884, P. 291

  • Deposit

    1914 RECON WINCHELL, A.N., U.S.G.S. BULL. 574

  • Deposit

    1972 COMPILE M.B.M.G. BULL. 85

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE GRANITE PRODUCED MINERALIZATION IN THE COLORADO FM. TO THE SOUTH OF THE BERLIN MINE. ASSAYS FROM AN INCLINED TUNNEL IN SECTION 15 SHOWED 1.5 OZ. AU PER TON. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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