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Red Chief

Past Producer in Madison county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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  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 10019863
MRDS ID DC11735
Record type Site
Current site name Red Chief

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.79225, 45.60434 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madison(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Maltbys Mound(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jefferson(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Madison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 003S 002W 01 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • 12TH ANN. REPT. LOCATES THE MINE NEAR RED BLUFF; MBMG MEM 9 LOCATES THE MINE ON NORWEGIAN CREEK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Quartz Monzonite-Tobacco Root Batholith
    Rock description Quartz Monzonite-Tobacco Root Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.79225, 45.60434
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Tobacco Root Batholith Intrusion Into Precambrian Gneiss.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Norwegian

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MONT. B.M. AND GEOL. BULL. 77.

  • Deposit

    12 ANN. REPT. OF THE INSPECTOR OF MINES, STATE OF MONTANA, 1900, P. 26

  • Deposit

    TANSLEY, SCHAFER, 1933, GEOL RECON-TOBACCO ROOT MTN, MADISON CO, MONT., MONT. BUR. OF MINES & GEOL MEM. 9, P. 32.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 07-13-1970

  • Deposit

    1900 COMPILE INS. OF MINES REPT. 1900

  • Deposit

    1933 RECON MBMG MEM 9.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1980 Doyle, Brien (Wells, John) U.S. Geological Survey

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