Lost Cabin Group

Past Producer in Missoula county in Montana, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Gold, Silver, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019055
MRDS ID DC08418
Record type Site
Current site name Lost Cabin Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.44569, 47.14655 (WGS84)
Elevation 1250
Relative position 4 MI W OF SQUAW PK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Missoula(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

McCormick Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Plains(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 Missoula

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 016N 023W 13 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • ON KENNEDY CREEK, ABOUT 3 MI UP FROM NINE MILE CREEK.

Commodities

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

Materials information

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

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE OF TYPICAL ORE ASSAYED 23.7 % ZN, 9.8 % PB, 0.43 % CU, 0.10 OZ/TON AU, 4.0 OZ/TON AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Ravalli Group
    Rock description Ravalli Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.44569, 47.14655

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SEAMS AND VUGS
    Strike N 78 W
    Dip 64 NE
    Width 2.29M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Nine Mile District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Art Lawson

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS INCLUDE ONE ADIT; AT TIME OF MID - 1950'S EXAMINATION, ADIT WAS LOCKED AND INACCESSIBLE; THE SIZE OF THE DUMPS NEARBY INIDICATE SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET OF WORKINGS. THERE ARE ALSO TWO OLDER ADITS AND SOME BULLDOZER CUTS.

Comments on development

  • 6 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: SAHINEN, U. M., 1957 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 8 , P. 39 .

  • Deposit

    SAHINEN, U. M., 1957 , MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS, MISSOULA AND RAVALLI COUNTIES, MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 8 .

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 01-09-1963

  • Production

    SAHINEN, U. M., 1957 , MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 8 , P. 39 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SIX VEINS, RANGING IN WIDTH FROM 4 - 7 1/2 FT. THE ORE OCCURS IN SHOOTS WHICH RAKE TO THE SE. MATERIAL NEAR ORE BIN LOOKS AS IF IT CAME FROM A SHEAR ZONE WITH PYRITE ALONG SEAMS AND VUGS.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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