Silver Water Mine

Occurrence in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Bismuth
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019859
MRDS ID DC11726
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Water Mine
Related records 10293622

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.87422, 45.26879 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.5 MI SW OF ARGENTA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Argenta(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaverhead(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(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 Beaverhead

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 006S 010W 31 NE Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Bismuth Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.87422, 45.26879

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Argenta District

Comments on the workings information

  • 52 FT SHAFT, 70 FT DRIFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 15, P. 6

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 43 FT WIDE VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1983 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.