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Fritz Creek Travertine Mine

Past Producer in Clark county in Idaho, United States with commodity Limestone, General
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071998
MRDS ID W015801
Record type Site
Current site name Fritz Creek Travertine Mine
Alternate or previous names Medicine Lodge Canyon

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.66777, 44.4263 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position 15 MI SSW OF LIMA, MONTANA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fritz Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dubois(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dubois(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Medicine Lodge(hydrologic unit)

Upper Snake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 013N 032E 26 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • UPPER END OF MEDICINE LODGE CANYON; PLOT APPROXIMATE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Limestone, General Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Ore
Travertine Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Salt Lake Formation-Limestone
    Rock description Salt Lake Formation-Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.66777, 44.4263
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure

Comments on the geologic information

  • TRAVERTINE HAS HIGH CALCIUM CONTENT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Warm Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Ed J. Wilson
  • Type Owner
    Owner Targhee National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • TRAVERTINE HAS BEEN PRODUCED

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND TONS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUBBARD, C. R., 1956, MEDICINE LODGE CANYON: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY OPEN-FILE REPT.

  • Deposit

    SAVAGE, C. N., 1964, MINERAL RESOURCE-LIMESTONE AND RELATED MATERIALS, IN MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY SPEC. REPT. NO. 1, P. 111-116.

  • Deposit

    MINOBRAS, 1975, IDAHO INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: MINOBRAS, 55 P.

  • Deposit

    1956 RECON IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY OPEN-FILE REPT

  • Deposit

    1964 COMPILE IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY SPEC. REPT. NO. 1

  • Production

    MINOBRAS, 1975

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FRACTURED AND RECEMENTED CALCITE PROBABLY A FISSURE DEPOSIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1977 Siefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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