Shorty

Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019647
MRDS ID DC11044
Record type Site
Current site name Shorty
Alternate or previous names Addition

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.43505, 45.92462 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Homestake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(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 002N 007W 14 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • 6 MI SE BUTTE; 1:24000 QUADRANGLE IS A 1978 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.43505, 45.92462

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact: Granite & Aplite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Summit Valley District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TRAVERMAN, 1950, MONT. BM&G, MEM. 31, P. 100

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 04-11-1961

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1985 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.