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Lizzie Mine

Past Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101894
MRDS ID D011288
Record type Site
Current site name Lizzie Mine
Alternate or previous names Hayes Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.51756, 46.01657 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position NW OF BERKLEY PIT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Butte North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 003N 007W 18 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1959 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Gold Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Enargite Ore
Gold Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 2-2.5% CU, MUCH ZN.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Butte Quartz Monzonite (Boulder Batholith)
    Rock description Butte Quartz Monzonite (Boulder Batholith)
    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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Granitic rock
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Butte District

Comments on the production information

  • IN 1930 SEVERAL CARLOADS OF SULPHIDE COPPER ORE WAS SENT.

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 74, P. 193-4, PL X.

  • Deposit

    USGS-USBM MINERAL YEARBOOKS -1926, 1927, 1930.

  • Production

    USGS-USBM MINERAL YEARBOOKS.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE VEIN BELONGS TO THE BLUE VEIN SERIES, IT CARRIES A LOT OF ZINC.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1984 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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