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West Fork Cr-Pt Tuttle

Occurrence in Sweet Grass county in Montana, United States with commodities Platinum, Chromium, Copper, Nickel
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  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. Reserves and resources
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10056256
MRDS ID SP01092
Record type Site
Current site name West Fork Cr-Pt Tuttle

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.01023, 45.38159 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377
Relative position ABOUT 3.1 MI SOUTHEAST OF SOUTHERN SUMMIT OF IRON 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)

Stillwater(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 CUSTER NATIONAL FOREST. UNSURVEYED.

Commodities

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.01023, 45.38159
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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

Mining district

District name In Stillwater Complex

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1993
    Total resources 1000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Platinum Pt 0.564 g/mt PGE Major 1993

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UNPUBLISHED MODEL NAME: PGE-ENRICHED STRATIFORM CHROMITITE.

Reporter information

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

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