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Fluorescent Claims

Past Producer in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014518
MRDS ID D011329
Record type Site
Current site name Fluorescent Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.85589, 45.5299 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Storm Peak(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)

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 010W 32,33 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • 1 MI W OF BROWNS LAKE, N SIDE OF ROCK CR ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1975

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Analytical data

Result CONCENTRATE AVG 26 % W03

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Amspen
    Rock description Amspen

Nearby scientific data

(1) Granitic rock
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1942
Discoverer R.C. Mclaughlin
Year of first production 1944

Mining district

District name Rock Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Fluorescent Mines Inc. , Minerals Engineering Co.
    First year 1940

Comments on the workings information

  • 120 FT ADIT, PITS, TRENCHES, USBM BULLDOZED IN 1943.

Comments on development

  • 15 CLAIMS N OF ROCK CR. GARNET CL. PRODUCED 300 LB OF CONCENTRATE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85, P. 127, 1972

  • Deposit

    HOBBS, J.W., 1944, UNPUBLISHED CONSULTING REPORT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1984 Leon, Jeffrey (Pearson, Robert) U.S. Geological Survey

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