| Deposit ID | 10048813 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | MP90043 |
| Record type | Deposit |
| Mineralized Area | Revett copper deposits |
| Current site name | Rock Creek |
| Geographic coordinates: | -115.67773, 48.07937 (WGS84) |
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Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Sanders(county)
Montana(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Elephant Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Libby(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Kalispell(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Lower Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)
Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)
Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)
Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Kootenai National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
Cabinet Mountains Wilderness(Wilderness)
Wilderness FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Montana | Sanders |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana Principal | T27N | R32W | 13, 14, 22-27, 34, 35 | Montana |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Bornite | Ore |
| Chalcocite | Ore |
| Silver | Ore |
| Chlorite | Gangue |
| Model code | 197 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 30b |
| Deposit model name | Sediment-hosted Cu |
| Mark3 model number | 63 |
| Model code | 200 |
| USGS model code | Unassigned |
| Deposit model name | Sediment-hosted Cu, Revett |
| Mark3 model number | 64 |
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone | ||
| Rock type qualifier | Siltite with interbedded argillite and quartzite. | ||
| Rock unit name | Revett (middle) | ||
| |||
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite | ||
| Rock type qualifier | Predominantly quartzite with interbedded siltite and argillite. | ||
| Rock unit name | Revett (lower) | ||
| |||
| (1) | -115.67773, 48.07937 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Local |
|---|---|
| Structure name | Copper Lake Fault |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure name | Moran Fault |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure name | anticline |
| General form | Tabular |
|---|---|
| Length | 4900M |
| Width | 2200M |
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Medium |
| Significant | Yes |
| Discovery year | 1963 |
| Discoverer | Bear Creek Mining Company |
| District name | Cabinet Mountains Area |
|---|
| Type of mineral rights | Patented |
|---|
| Ownership category | National Wilderness |
|---|---|
| Area name | Patented minerals in Cabinet Mountains Wilderness |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Revett Silver Company |
| Interest | 100 |
| Home office | Spokane, WA |
| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Bear Creek Mining company (Kennecott) |
| Year | 2009 |
| First year | 1963 |
| Last year | 2000 |
| Type | Lessor |
|---|---|
| Owner | ASARCO |
| Year | 2009 |
| First year | 1974 |
| Last year | 1999 |
| Type | In-situ | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Estimate year | 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Inferred | 124000000mt ore | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Remarks | Total inferred mineral resources (CIM standards). Minimum thickness 16 feet, lower cutoff of $10 US at $7 US per ounce silver and $1 US per pound copper.\nCouture and Tanaka, NI 43-101 report, 2005, p. 42, Table 5. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | MP90043 |
Balla, J.C. 2000. Geologic Comparison of the Troy Mine/Spar Lake Deposit
and the Rock Creek Mine/Rock Creel Deposit, Northwestern Montana.
Unpublished report, Steling Mining Company, 97 pages
ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, MARCH, 1989
Hayes, T.S. 1983. Geologic studies on the genesis of the Spar Lake stratabound copper-silver deposit, Lincoln County, Montana. Dissertation
for Ph.D submitted to the Department of Applied Sciences, Stanford
University, Stanford. November 1983. Typescript
Couture, Jean-Francois and Tanaka, William, 2005, Independent Technical Report on the Rock Creek Cu-Ag Project, Montana, U.S.A., prepared for Revett Silver Company in 2004, updated in 2005: SRK Consulting 3UR006.01 ? Revett Silver Company ? Rock Creek Cu-Ag project, Montana, Independent Technical Report, 71 p [http://www.revettminerals.com/revProRockCreekReports.php, accessed January 5, 2010]
Hayes, T.S., and Balla, J.C. 1986. Troy Mine, In Geological Association of
Canada, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Canadian Geophysical
Union joint annual meeting, 1986, Ottawa, Ontario, 10pgs.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | SEDIMENT-HOSTED CU, REVETT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 31-JUL-1995 | Sachiko Tanikawa | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Editor | 09-SEP-2008 | Schruben, Paul | U.S. Geological Survey | Fixed lat/long - county disagreement. |
| Updater | 05-JAN-2010 | Causey, J. Douglas | U.S. Geological Survey |
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