Ready Cash

Past Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019515
MRDS ID DC10734
Record type Site
Current site name Ready Cash
Alternate or previous names Paymaster, U.S. Gold

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.45644, 45.81518 (WGS84)
Elevation 2408
Relative position 3 MILES SSW OF PIPESTONE PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pipestone Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jefferson(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Beaverhead-Deerlodge 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 Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 001N 007W 22,27 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • CLAIM INCLUDES LIMEKILN HILL ALONG CENTER OF SECTIONLINE BETWEEN SECTION 27 AND 22.

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Diopside Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Jasper Gangue
Malachite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.45644, 45.81518

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NORTH - SOUTH
    Dip STEEP

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: $20.00 PER TON

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Highland (Fish Creek) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner E. M. Norris, D. J. Mcgrath
    Home office Butte, Mt.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 30.48M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 32, P. 49

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1980 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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