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Packer Creek Barite Deposit

Occurrence in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Lead
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019050
MRDS ID DC08408
Record type Site
Current site name Packer Creek Barite Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.51879, 47.43237 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097
Relative position 1.5 MI N OF SALTESE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Saltese(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Lolo 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 019N 031W 02,03 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • PARALLEL TO WEST FORK OF PACKER CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Galena Ore
Limonite Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.51879, 47.43237
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description A Major Structural Grain Trends Nw And Is Made Of Subparallel Faults And Folds

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.3M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: 1 FT. THICK VEIN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Packer Creek

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHALLOW PROSPECT HOLES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DEMUNCK, V. C. AND ACKERMAN, W. C., 1958 , BARITE DEPOSITS IN MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY INF. CIRC. 22 , P. 21 .

  • Deposit

    WALLACE, R. E. AND HOSTERMAN, J. W., 1956 , RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGY OF WESTERN MINERAL COUNTY: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1027-M, P. 588 .

  • Deposit

    CALKINS, F. C. AND JONES, E. L., JR., 1914 , ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE REGION AROUND MULLAN, IDAHO, AND SALTESE, MONTANA: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 540 , P. 195 .

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 02-01-1962

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN CONSISTS CHIEFLY OF BARITE. APPARENTLY BARITE IS RATHER IMPURE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1979 Rojstaczer, Stuart A. U.S. Geological Survey

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