Rock Island

Past Producer in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10197175
MAS/MILS ID 0300610060
Record type Site
Current site name Rock Island

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -115.3057, 47.43377 (WGS84)
Elevation 1554
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

De Borgia North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Lolo 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 019 N 029 W 04 NWNWSW Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -115.3057, 47.43377

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Area 5HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 5
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Saltese

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • LACK OF INFORMATION PRECLUDES FURTHER CONSIDERATION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WALLACE AND HOSTERMAN,1956,USGS BULL.1027-M,P.605

  • Deposit

    YOUNG,ETAL,1962,MBMG BULL.30,P.31-32

  • Deposit

    ZARTMAN AND STACEY,1971,ECON.GEOLOGY,VOL.66,P.852

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-NOV-83 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