Mountain View

Past Producer in Granite county in Montana, United States with commodities Manganese, Silver
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 10172945
MAS/MILS ID 0300390018
Record type Site
Current site name Mountain View
Alternate or previous names Saunders

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -113.26562, 46.33819 (WGS84)
Elevation 1808
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 NWNWNW Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Wad Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -113.26562, 46.33819

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N20W
    Dip 70E
    Thickness 1M
    Length 70M
    Width 106M
    Depth to top 91M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 REPLACEMENT
    Shape of Orebody #1 IRREGULAR
    Primary mode of Origin OXIDATION
    Primary Ore Control LITHOLOGY
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. UNKNOWN
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 UNKNOWN
    Strike And Dip N20W:70E
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 3
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 830316
  • Area 0.05HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) .05
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
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 Taylor Knapp Co.
    Interest 100
    Home office Montana
    Year 1976

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRINZ,1967,USGS BULL 1237,P17,34

  • Deposit

    LORAIN,1950,USBM RI 4723 FIG6

  • Deposit

    PARDEE,1922,USGS BULL 725C P172

  • Deposit

    EMMONS AND CALKINS,1913,USGS PP 78,P212

  • Deposit

    ALSO SEE MIN. PROP. FILE 41.84

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.