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Buckeye Mine

Past Producer in Jefferson county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Arsenic
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10015885
MRDS ID DB02160
Record type Site
Current site name Buckeye Mine
Alternate or previous names Boston Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.29533, 46.39796 (WGS84)
Relative position 14.3 KM N OF BASIN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jefferson(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Three Brothers(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Boulder(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 Jefferson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 008N 006W 36 N2 OF SE Montana

Comments on the location information

  • HEAD OF BASIN CR. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1954)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PYRITE IS GOLD BEARING

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1902 ORE MILLED AT MINE $30/TON.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Butte Quartz Monzonite (Boulder Batholith)
    Rock description Butte Quartz Monzonite (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) Elkhorn Mountains Volcanics
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N85
    Dip VERICALLY
    Width 1.52M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zones In Quartz Monzonite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1868
Discoverer C.K. Riale

Mining district

District name Basin (Cataract, Comet) District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner M. R. Anderson,

Comments on the production information

  • ORE GRADE WAS 15-30 DOLLARS PER TON IN 1896-1902. PRODUCTION WAS LISTED BY ROBY WITH BOSTON MINE AND BUCKEYE MINE AS SEPERATE, COMBINED TOTAL USED ABOVE. PROPERTY WORKED FROM 1863-1908, 1902-1949.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 200M
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • ORE MILLED AT MINE SITE IN 1902

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 16, P. 25

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 1151, P. 101.

  • Production

    MBMG BULL 16, P. 25.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1979 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1981 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.

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