Red Lion District

Past Producer in Granite county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Geologic structures
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000358
MRDS ID D009567
Record type District
Current site name Red Lion District
Alternate or previous names Hidden Lake District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.20091, 46.24989 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position LAT LONG ARE GENERAL FOR DISTRICT. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(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)

Federal lands

Beaverhead-Deerlodge 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 Granite

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description CABLE MOUNTAIN
Type of structure Regional
Structure description PHILIPSBURG BATHOLITH

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1880

Mining district

District name RED LION DISTRICT
District name HIDDEN LAKE DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 84, P. 37-9.

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 78, P. 224.

  • Deposit

    USGS-USBM MINERAL YEARBOOKS.

Beyond USGS

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