Coors 602

Occurrence in Sweet Grass county in Montana, United States with commodities Platinum, Palladium, Copper, Nickel
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Geologic structures
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10056245
MRDS ID SP01024
Record type Site
Current site name Coors 602

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.09219, 45.43436 (WGS84)
Elevation 2743
Relative position ABOUT 2.1 MI SOUTHWEST OF PICKET PIN MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweet Grass(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Picket Pin Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gardiner(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Yellowstone(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 Sweet Grass

Comments on the location information

  • IN GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST. UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Platinum Critical Primary
Palladium Critical Primary
Copper Secondary
Nickel Critical Secondary

Analytical data

Result AN INTERVAL 25 FT WIDE CONTAINED 4.4 PPM PT AND 11 PPM PD

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.09219, 45.43436

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description The Stillwater Complex Is Exposed Along The Northern Margin Of The Beartooth Uplift, One Of Several Laramide Basement-Cored Ranges That Make Up The Rocky Mountain Foreland Of South-Central Montana (Foose And Others, 1961: Kulik And Schmidt, 1988)

Comments on the geologic information

  • AGE OF STILLWATER COMPLEX IS 2,705 +/- 4 MA BASED ON U-PB SYSTEMATICS ON ZIRCON-BADDELEYITE (PREMO AND OTHERS, 1990)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1967
Discoverer Johns-Manville

Mining district

District name In Stillwater Complex

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Johns-Manville Products Corp.
    First year 1977

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UNPUBLISHED MODEL NAME: DISCORDANT PGE MINERALIZATION.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1993 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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