Jack Waite Mine

Past Producer in Sanders county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10245408
MAS/MILS ID 0300890040
Record type Site
Current site name Jack Waite Mine
Alternate or previous names Galena Giant Project

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -115.60522, 47.66487 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanders(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Helwick Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Thompson Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Kootenai 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 Sanders

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 022 N 032 W 17 NENESE Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -115.60522, 47.66487

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Eagle District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBM & G BULL. 49, 1966, DIR.

  • Deposit

    MBM & G MEM 31, 1949, P91-92

  • Deposit

    MBM & G IC 20, 1957, P45

  • Deposit

    MBM & G MEM 20, 1940, P100

  • Deposit

    MBM & G MEM 15, 1935, P69

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 09-JUN-98 Buckingham, David A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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