(Facility) Anaconda Reduction Smelter

Plant in Deer Lodge county in Montana, United States with commodity Copper
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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10293440
MAS/MILS ID 0300239003
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Anaconda Reduction Smelter
Alternate or previous names Anaconda Reduction Dept Smelter, Anaconda Smelter

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -112.914, 46.11409 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Deer Lodge(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Anaconda South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clark Fork(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 Deer Lodge

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 004 N 011 W 12 C Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -112.914, 46.11409

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Smelter

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • CERCLA (SUPERFUND) SITE LISTED ON NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST (NPL), OCT. 14, 1992. ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS INCLUDE COPPER SMELTING WASTES. REMEDIATION EFFORTS-CLEANUP PROGRESSING AND CONTINUING. CONTRIBUTOR TO MILLTOWN DAM SUPERFUND SITE, MISSOULA COUNTY LAT. N. 46-52-17, LON. W. 113-53-26.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. MEMOIR 15, 1935, P. 18.

  • Deposit

    MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. MEMOIR 20, 1940, P. 19.

  • Deposit

    1975 E/MJ INTL MINING DIRECTORY P155.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SLAG DUMP; UNDER MAS SEQ #0300230123.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-JAN-98 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.