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Unknown Ag Mine S Fork Cottonwood Creek

Occurrence in Deer Lodge county in Montana, United States with commodities Silver, Zinc, Arsenic, Chromium
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013226
MRDS ID D009410
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown Ag Mine S Fork Cottonwood Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.64033, 46.20212 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 1.4 KM SE OF DRY COTTONWOOD GUARD STATION.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Deer Lodge(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Orofino Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(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 Deer Lodge

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 005N 008W 07,08 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • BY DRY COTTONWOOD CREEK SLIGHTLY SE OF FORK IN ROAD. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1959)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Chromium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 200 PPM AG; 1000 PPM ZN; 2000 PPM AS; 500 PPM CR.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Boulder Batholith
    Rock description Boulder Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.64033, 46.20212
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Boulder Batholith

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Orofino District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 COLLAPSED ADIT, 2 MORE ADITS, DUMP, SHACK AND COLLAPSED SHED, DRAINAGE DITCH TO CREEK.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FS FIELD REPORT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-82 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) 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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