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Silver Queen Mine

Past Producer in Deer Lodge county in Montana, United States with commodity Gold
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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. 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. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10070447
MRDS ID W013388
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Queen Mine
Related records 10245615

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.01952, 46.21933 (WGS84)
Elevation 2103
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 2.6KM SW OF SILVER KING MINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Deer Lodge(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

West Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Beaverhead-Deerlodge 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 Deer Lodge

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 005N 011W 06 NE OF NE Montana

Comments on the location information

  • N SLOPE OF LOST CR CANYON. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Wallace Formation
    Rock description Wallace Formationt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Mount Powell Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Lost Creek Granite Stock

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Width 0.51M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Sheeted Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lost Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • EARLL ESTIMATES PRODUCTION OF ROUGHLY 200 ST ORE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 85M

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE DEVELOPED BY A SERIES OF SMALL ADITS ALONG A SPLITTING VEIN STRUCTURE. TRAMWAY TO LOST CR.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 84, P. 27.

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 78, P. 245.

  • Production

    MBMG BULL 84.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IN THE BEDDING PLANE. ONE LENS OF ORE EXTENDING ROUGHLY FROM THE 54 FT LEVEL TO THE BOTTOM OF A WINZE ABOUT THE 165 FT LEVEL HAS BEEN MINED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1976 Krohn, Douglas H. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1980 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

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