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Silver Zone Lode

Prospect in Park county in Montana, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10022840
MRDS ID FS00335
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Zone Lode

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.96051, 45.03436 (WGS84)
Elevation 2804
Relative position 2 MILES NW OF COOKE CITY MONT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Park(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cooke City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Red Lodge(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Billings(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Yellowstone Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Custer Gallatin 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 Park

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 009S 014E 14,23 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • THIS CLAIM IS PART OF A GROUP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE BULK OF ORE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN LEACHED, THE SHOWING IS POOR

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.96051, 45.03436
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE PORPHYRY IS VERY RICH HOWEVER IN THIS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1872

Mining district

District name New World Mining

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Yellowstone Mining Corp.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 21.34M
    Overall length 1.22M
    Overall width 1.83M

Comments on the workings information

  • BOTH WORKINGS EXPOSE LEACHED AREAS IN PORPHYRY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1921 DIREXPL USFS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1976 Steward, Candis A. 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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