Lookout No. 1 Claim

Occurrence in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodity Uranium
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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019245
MRDS ID DC09152
Record type Site
Current site name Lookout No. 1 Claim
Related records 10269899

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.94556, 44.90556 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Relative position 5 MILES SW OF CLARK CANYON RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Garfield Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lima(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dubois(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Red Rock(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Beaverhead

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 011S 011W 4 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • IN THE MIDDLE SOUTH FORK IN GARFIELD CANYON

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Gangue
Microcline Gangue
Monazite Gangue
Plagioclase Gangue

Analytical data

Result SELECTED SAMPLE - .033 % EQUIVALENT URANIUM, .003 % URANIUM.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.94556, 44.90556

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 3.66M
    Length 22.86M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: 3 PEGMATITES UP TO 75 X 12 FT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type E
Significant No

Mining district

District name Deer Creek District

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE SMALL PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: TRITES & TOOKER, 1953

  • Deposit

    TRITES, A. F., TOOKER, E. W., 1953 , URANIUM AND THORIUM DEPOSITS IN EAST-CENTRAL IDAHO AND SOUTHERN MONTANA, USGS BULL 988-H.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 02-20-1963

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1974-03-01 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 1979-12-01 Doyle, Brien (Wells, John) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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