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Sugar Lode

Occurrence in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Zinc
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010840
MRDS ID D004834
Record type Site
Current site name Sugar Lode
Alternate or previous names Steel Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.32674, 45.60545 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position 6 AIR MILES EAST OF WISDOM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stewart Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wisdom(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)

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 Beaverhead

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 003S 014W 04 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4, SECTION 4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sphalerite Ore
Iron Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLE FROM ORE PILE ASSAYED 1.620 OZ AU/TON, AND 2.10 OZ AG/TON.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Lcret-Tert Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Lcret-Tert Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.32674, 45.60545
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Pioneer Batholith

Ore body information

  • Strike N 62 E
    Dip 69 NW
    Width 0.08M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Wisdom Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Jennie And Don Shauber
    Home office Butte, Mt.
    First year 1982

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHORT ADITS. LOWER ADIT IS CAVED. UPPER ADIT IS DRIVEN 69 FEET ALONG VEIN, 25 FEET ABOVE THE LOWER ONE.

Comments on development

  • DEPOSIT THOUGHT TO BE UNCLAIMED IN 1972.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85, P. 145

  • Deposit

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1980 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1985 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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