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Daisy Group

Past Producer in Sweet Grass county in Montana, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Alteration
  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. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019144
MRDS ID DC08789
Record type Site
Current site name Daisy Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.20913, 45.21659 (WGS84)
Elevation 2896
Relative position 1.5 MILE NORTH OF MONUMENT PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweet Grass(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Haystack Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gardiner(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Custer Gallatin National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Sweet Grass

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 007S 012E 23 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS APROXIMATE. MINE POSITION IS SHORT DISTANCE SE OF INDEPENDENCE MINE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.20913, 45.21659
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NW
    Dip VERT.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Vertical Fissures

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: OXIDIZED, PYRITIC AU ORES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1894
Production years 1894-1897

Mining district

District name Independence (Boulder River) Region

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Cowles Mining Co.
    Home office Boston, Ma.
    First year 1950

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ADITS AND A MILL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REED, G, 1950, MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS, PARK CO, MONT, U.S.B.M. INF. CIRC. 7546, P. 57.

  • Deposit

    WEDOW, H, ET AL, 1975, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE ABSAROKA PRIM AREA AND VICINITY, PARK AND SWEETGRASS CO, MONT, USGS BULL 1391-B, P. 35

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 12-29-1961

  • Deposit

    1950 COMPILE USBM INF. CIR. 7546

  • Deposit

    1975 GEOCHEM WEDOW, BULL 1391-B

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1980 Doyle, Brien (Wells, John) U.S. Geological Survey

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