White Horse

Past Producer in Granite county in Montana, United States with commodity Manganese
Sections on this page
  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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10172754
MAS/MILS ID 0300390017
Record type Site
Current site name White Horse
Alternate or previous names Whitehorse, White House, Whitehouse

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -113.27672, 46.33019 (WGS84)
Elevation 1766
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Philipsburg(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Flint-Rock(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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 007 N 013 W 30 NWNWSE Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Unknown
Wad Unknown

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N84E
    Dip 85S
    Thickness 5M
    Length 52M
    Width 31M
    Depth to top 30M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 SHEAR ZONE
    Shape of Orebody #1 IRREGULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 REPLACEMENT
    Primary mode of Origin UNKNOWN
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Secondary Ore Control BEDDING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. UNKNOWN
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 UNKNOWN
    Strike And Dip N84E:85S
    Minimum Depth to Top 30
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 830316
  • Area 0.07HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) .07
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1887
Year of first production 1918

Mining district

District name Philipsburg

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mc Donel, William Royal
    Interest 100
    Home office Georgia
    Year 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRINZ,1967,USGS BULL 1237,P31,34,PL 1

  • Deposit

    PARDEE,1922,USGS BULL 725C,P167

  • Deposit

    CORRY,A.U.,1941 UNPUB.RPT.ON WHITE HORSE GROUP, P'BURG MT.

  • Deposit

    ANON. UNPUB.RPT. WHITEHORSE MINE IN BACK-UP FILE

  • Deposit

    MBM G IC 20, 1957 P.19

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-84 Montana Bureau Of Mines And Geology Hgm U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references