Clipper-Columbia Group

Past Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodity Copper
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. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019017
MRDS ID DC08215
Record type Site
Current site name Clipper-Columbia Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.55505, 45.72407 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position 1 MILE NE OF PANDORA MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wickiup Creek(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 001S 008W 26 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • CLIPPER MINE IS IN NE/4 OF THE NW/4. COLUMBIA IS IN NW/4 OF THE SE/4, SECTION 26.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Cuprite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) 6 Inches Of Gouge, Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Rock unit name Belt Formation
    Rock description Belt Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.55505, 45.72407

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Boulder Batholith, 4 Mi. North.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Slates Trend N 52 W, 41 E.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 28 W
    Dip 30 E
    Width 3.05M

Comments on the geologic information

  • SLATES BECOME MORE MASSIVE WITH DEPTH. ; GEOL.DESC: EXTENSIVE LODES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Melrose (Camp Creek) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Anaconda Co.

Comments on the workings information

  • VERTICAL SHAFTS, 300 FT. DEEP ON BOTH CLIPPER AND COLUMBIA CLAIMS. BETWEEN THEM ARE EIGHT SHALLOW SHAFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 574, P. 92.

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 25, P. 53.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 07-10-1963

  • Deposit

    1914 RECON WINCHELL, A.N., U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 574

  • Deposit

    1950 GEOLMAP MBMG MEMOIR 32.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IS SCATTERED THROUGH A VEIN RANGING FROM 4 TO 10 FT.WIDE. THE VEIN HAS THE SAME ATTITUDE THROUGH THE CLIPPER AND COLUMBIA CLAIMS
Deposit TWENTY CLAIMS SURROUND AND SEPARATE THE CLIPPER AND COLUMBIA MINES. ALL WERE OPERATED BY THE ANACONDA CO., BEFORE 1917. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1980 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.