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Brown Claim Group

Occurrence in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Reserves and resources
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019884
MRDS ID DC11801
Record type Site
Current site name Brown Claim Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.70089, 45.74351 (WGS84)
Elevation 1798
Relative position 2 AIR MILES ESE OF DIVIDE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Melrose(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Hole(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 Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 001S 009W 15,22 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • CENTER, BORDER OF SECS 15 AND 20.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Pilgrim
    Rock description Pilgrim
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.70089, 45.74351
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: FLUORSPAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Moose Creek District

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1980
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Fluorine-Fluorite F 20 wt-pct Fluorine Major 1980

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SUBMARGINAL RESOURCE ESTIMATED 800-1000 TONS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMEDES, H. 1980, USGS OPEN-FILE 80-836, P. 17.

  • Deposit

    MONT. B.M. AND GEOL. BULL. 20, 1961, P. 46.

  • Deposit

    1980 GEOLMAP SMEDES, H., USGS, OPEN-FILE 80-83

  • Reserve-Resource

    SMEDES, H., USGS OPEN-FILE 80-836

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEVELOPING ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

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

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