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Frank Prospect

Past Producer in Park county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic, Tungsten
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019163
MRDS ID DC08842
Record type Site
Current site name Frank Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.58553, 45.05019 (WGS84)
Elevation 2560
Relative position FIVE MILES EAST OF GARDINER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Park(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ash Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gardiner(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Yellowstone Headwaters(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Park

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 009S 009E 14,15 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • CLAIMS LOCATED ON WEST SIDE OF CREVASSE MTN AND ON THE SOUTH SLOPE OF PALMER MTN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.58553, 45.05019
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NNE
    Dip LOW SE
    Thickness 0.91M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1895

Mining district

District name Jardine (Crevasse Mtn)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 STAMP MILL OPERATED IN 1896.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SEAGER, G.F., 1944, GOLD, ARSENIC, AND TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE JARDINE-CREVASSE MTN. DIST., PARK CO., MONT: MONT. SCH. MINES, MEMOIR 23, P. 110.

  • Deposit

    REED, 1950, MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS, PARK CO., MONT, USBM INF CIRC 7546, P. 29.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 07-11-1963

  • Deposit

    1944 RECON MBMG MEM. 2

Reporter information

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

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