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Silver Glance

Past Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodity Silver
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101508
MRDS ID D004325
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Glance

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.52588, 45.76518 (WGS84)
Elevation 2225
Relative position 2 MILES SE OF MOOSE TOWN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Humbug(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Hole(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(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 Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 001S 008W 12 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • SE/4 OF THE NE/4 OF SECTION 12.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Muscovite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Brecciation, Oxidation, Sericitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Butte Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Butte Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.52588, 45.76518
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Pegmatites

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Moose Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Silver Glance Mining Co.

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW SHAFTS AND PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 25, P. 53

  • Deposit

    1950 GEOLMAP MBMG MEMOIR 3

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1980 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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