Governor Tilden Mine

Past Producer in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver, 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. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10244845
MRDS ID W013419
MAS/MILS ID 0300010169
Record type Site
Current site name Governor Tilden Mine
Alternate or previous names Tuscaroa, Wooley
Related records 10070472

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -112.87419, 45.3127 (WGS84)
Elevation 2104
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Argenta(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaverhead(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Beaverhead

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 006 S 010 W 18 SESWNE Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Lead Primary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -112.87419, 45.3127

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Area 3.3HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 3.3
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Argenta District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Interest 99
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1978

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBM & G BULL 85, 1972, P62-63

  • Deposit

    MBM & G IC 20, 1957, P5

  • Deposit

    MBM & G BULL 6, 1931, P59-62

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 16-AUG-1994 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.