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Sims Prospect

Occurrence in Sanders county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Arsenic
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094280
MRDS ID D003842
Record type Site
Current site name Sims Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.4213, 47.92154 (WGS84)
Elevation 1311
Relative position 2 1/2 MI EAST OF SILVER BUTTE PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanders(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Butte Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Thompson Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fisher(hydrologic unit)

Kootenai(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Kootenai 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 Sanders

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 025N 030W 14 SE Montana

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR THE DIVIDE BETWEEN SIMS AND WALOVEN CREEK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLE FROM THE TRENCH A SHORT DISTANCE FROM THE ADIT ASSAYED 2.85 % CU, 2.25 OZ/TON AG & 0.003 OZ/TON AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Wallace Formation
    Rock description Wallace Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.4213, 47.92154
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description General Structural Grain Of Northward Trending Faults Which Are Parallel To Subparallel To Folds

Ore body information

  • General form VEINLETS AND DISSEMINATIONS IN WHITE MASSIVE QUARTZ AND CARBONATE GANGUE

Comments on the geologic information

  • HOST BEDS STRIKE NE AND DIPS SE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Vermilion River District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSISTS OF A 100 FT ADIT, A CAVED ADIT (?) AND A TRENCH.

Comments on development

  • GROUND WAS RELOCATED IN 1964 .

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: JOHNS, W. M., 1970 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 79 , P 125 .

  • Deposit

    JOHNS, W. M., 1970 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN AND FLATHEAD COUNTIES, MONTANA:MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 79 , P. 125

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN MATERIAL EXAMINED FROM ADIT DUMPS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Rojstaczer, Stuart A. U.S. Geological Survey

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