Old Joe Mine

Past Producer in Madison county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019894
MRDS ID DC11828
Record type Site
Current site name Old Joe Mine
Related records 10148384

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.95114, 45.65546 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Relative position 2.5 MILES WEST OF PONY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madison(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pony(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)

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 Madison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 002S 003W 15,22 SE OF SE (15); NE OF NE (22) Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Gangue

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
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Pre-Belt Pony-Cherry Creek Gneiss Series
    Rock description Pre-Belt Pony-Cherry Creek Gneiss Series

Nearby scientific data

(1) Gneiss and amphibolite

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw-Trending Faults

Ore body information

  • Strike N65W
    Dip 25SSW
    Thickness 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Zone Between Batholith Intrusion And Precambrian Gneiss.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pony (South Boulder)

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner F. Box
    Home office Pony
    First year 1958
  • Type Owner
    Owner Salt Lake Pioche Mining
    First year 1958

Comments on the production information

  • MINE IS SAID TO HAVE PRODUCED ABOUT $10,000, CHIEFLY GOLD (1914) (WINCHELL, P. 123)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MONT. B.M. AND GEOL. BULL. 14, 1960, P. 27.

  • Deposit

    TANSLET, HART, 1933, GEOL. RECON-TOBACCO ROOT MTN, MADISON CO, MONT, MONT BUR OF MINES & GEOL, MEM 9, P. 25, PL 1.

  • Deposit

    WINCHELL, 1914, MINING DISTRICTS-DILLON QUAD., MONT., USGS BULL S 74, P. 123.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 03-03-1961

  • Deposit

    STOUT, ACKERMAN, 1958, DIRECTORY OF KNOWN MINING ENTERPRISES, MONT. BUR. OF MINES & GEOL., BULL 10, P. 42.

  • Deposit

    1914 COMPILE WINCHELL, BULL 574

  • Deposit

    1933 RECON MBMG MEM 9

  • Deposit

    1935 COMPILE MBMG MEM 15

  • Deposit

    1937 COMPILE USBM 6972

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

Beyond USGS

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