Sallie Mellen Claim

Occurrence in Granite county in Montana, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead
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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019333
MRDS ID DC09551
Record type Site
Current site name Sallie Mellen Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.25925, 46.48628 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 0.5 MILE N OF COPPER STATE MINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Henderson Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Flint-Rock(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management MT)

Bureau of Land Management MT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 009N 013W 32 CENTER OF S2 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • S SLOPE OF SMART CR. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Cuprite Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyromorphite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 60 OZ/TON AG, $4/TON AU (1900).

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Flathead Formation
    Rock description Flathead Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.25925, 46.48628

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Philipsburg Anticline, Philipsburg Batholith

Ore body information

  • Width 0.13M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sheeted Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Princeton (South Boulder Creek) District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1980 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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