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Bear Paw Lode

Occurrence in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, Molybdenum
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013918
MRDS ID D010477
Record type Site
Current site name Bear Paw Lode
Alternate or previous names Ibex
Related records 10220945

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.24312, 45.586 (WGS84)
Elevation 2560
Relative position 10.3 MI S 78 E OF WISDOM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Odell Lake(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 013W 08 NW OF SW Montana

Comments on the location information

  • ON HILLSIDE DIRECTLY S OF SCHWINEGAR LK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Molybdenum Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    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) -113.24312, 45.586
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pioneer Mountains

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • 4 CAVED ADITS

Comments on development

  • OLD IBEX MINE WAS RELOCATED AS BEAR PAW LODE IN 1971

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BENHAM, J.R., U.S.B.M., WRITTEN COMM. 1980

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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