| Deposit ID | 10070472 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | W013419 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Governor Tilden |
| Alternate or previous names | Tilden |
| Related records | 10244845 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -112.87422, 45.31296 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 2104 |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Beaverhead(county)
Montana(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Argenta(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Dillon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Beaverhead(hydrologic unit)
Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)
Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)
Missouri(hydrologic region)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Montana | Beaverhead |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana Principal | 006S | 010W | 18 | Montana |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Gold | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Copper | Primary |
| Lead | Secondary |
| Zinc Critical | Secondary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Galena | Ore |
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite | ||
| Rock unit name | Jefferson;Flathead | ||
| Rock description | Jefferson;Flathead | ||
| |||
| (1) | -112.87422, 45.31296 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Local |
|---|---|
| Structure description | East - Trending Tuscarora Fault, Smaller North - Trending Vertical Faults. |
| General form | PIPE |
|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1865 |
| Discoverer | Amede Bessette, Wash Stapelton |
| District name | Argenta District |
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| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | The Anaconda Co, E And C White, And G. W. Foger |
| Year | 1926 |
|---|---|
| Period | 1902-1926 |
| Material | ORE |
| Accuracy | Accurate |
| Description | Cp_Grade: ^Approx. 13 % |
| Year | 1926 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1902-1926 | ||||||||||||||
| Material | AU | ||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Accurate | ||||||||||||||
| Description | Cp_Grade: ^Approx. 0.39 Oz/St | ||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1926 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1902 - 1926 | ||||||||||||||
| Material | CU | ||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Accurate | ||||||||||||||
| Description | Cp_Grade: ^Approx. 0.35 % | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 300M |
| Overall depth | 50M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | W013419 |
MBMG BULL 85.
MBMG BULL 6.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THE GOVENOR TILDEN MINE INCLUDED IN THE TUSCARORA GROUP OF PATENTED CLAIMS. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-MAY-1976 | Mlynarczyk, Meg S.; Krohn, D. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-MAR-1983 | Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) | U.S. Geological Survey |
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