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Black Butte Mine

Producer in Meagher county in Montana, United States with commodity Lead
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10197628
MAS/MILS ID 0300590059
Record type Site
Current site name Black Butte Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -110.9589, 46.7592 (WGS84)
Elevation 1865

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Meagher(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Strawberry Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

White Sulphur Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

White Sulphur Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Smith(hydrologic unit)

Upper Missouri(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri-Marias(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Helena-Lewis and Clark 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 Meagher

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 012 N 006 E 34 C Montana

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY COULD NOT BE LOCATED ON THE STRAWBERRY BUTTE 7.5 MIN TOPO SHEET (1995). THE MILS LAT/LONG CORRESPONDS TO THE UPPER HOLDER LAKE 7.5 MIN TOPO SHEET, NO PROPERTIES COULD BE FOUND ON THAT SHEET EITHER. THIS PROPERTY IS EITHER MISS-LOCATED OR COMPLETELY INCORRECT. SEE MAS SEQ 0300590052 FOR CORRECT(?) BLACK BUTTE PROPERTY FILE NO PROPERTIES COULD BE FOUND ON THE BLACK BUTTE 7.5 MIN TOPO EITHER. ALSO THE MILS LAT/LONG; TOPO SHEET OR COUNTY COULD ALSO BE INCORRECT.
  • County name is Meagher. However, original lat/long plots in Lewis and Clark county. Original coordinates were: lat/long NAD27 46-45-33N 111-57-32W (46.7592 -111.9589); UTM N5178629 E426770 Z12N; PLSS line# 1: Meridian- Montana Principal, TWNSHP 012 N, RNG 006 E, Sect 34, Sect_fract C. The PLSS coordinates translate to 46.759 -110.96, one degree east of the original lat/long, 2.5 km SE of Black Butte mountain, in Meagher county. The topo sheet shows numerous prospect symbols but no mine symbols in the vicinity. The reporter likely mistyped the longitude. So 1 degree was subtracted from the original longitude and the datum was changed to WGS84 to shift the location slightly closer to the prospect symbols.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -110.9589, 46.7592
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBM AND G BULL 100,1976 P25

  • Deposit

    MSHA RPT DATED DEC 1981

Comments on the references

  • The short citation in the reference field, MBM AND G BULL 100,1976 P25, is probably: 1976 "Directory of Mining Enterprises for 1975". Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Bulletin 100. Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, Butte.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-APR-98 Buckingham, David A. U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 20-NOV-08 Schruben, Paul U.S. Geological Survey Fixed lat/long - county disagreement.

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