1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Silver King Mine

Past Producer in Granite county in Montana, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Lead, Antimony
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011234
MRDS ID D005576
Record type Site
Current site name Silver King Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.04619, 46.23517 (WGS84)
Elevation 2341
Relative position 3.9KM NW OF OLSON MT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

West Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 006N 012W 36 CENTER OF N2 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • N SLOPE OF RIDGE ABOVE LOST CR. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Secondary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Galena Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Hasmark Formation
    Rock description Hasmark Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.04619, 46.23517
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Boulder Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ogden Mountain Quartz Monzonite

Ore body information

  • Dip SOUTHWARD

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of last production 1906

Mining district

District name Lost Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 SHALLOW INCINES CONNETED BY A LEVEL TUNNEL A FEW FEET BELOW SURFACE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS, PP, 78, P. 245.

  • Deposit

    MBMG, BULL 84, P. 27, 28.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site