Colorado District

Past Producer in Jefferson county in Montana, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Uranium, Copper, Zinc, Arsenic, Antimony
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001636
MRDS ID W002876
Record type District
Current site name Colorado District
Alternate or previous names Corbin -Wickes District, Gregory District
Related records 10294537

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.10508, 46.3666 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position LAT LONG ARE CENTRAL FOR THE DISTRICT. IT IS BORDERED ON THE E BY BEAVERTON CREEK, ON THE W BY THE DIVIDE BETWEEN CATARACT AND CLANCY CREEKS, ON THE N BY CLANCY-LUMP GULCH DISTRICT, AND ON THE S BY AMAZON DISTRICT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jefferson(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wickes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Missouri(hydrologic unit)

Upper Missouri(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri-Marias(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Jefferson

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Uranium Secondary
Copper Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) SERICITIZATION
  • (Local) TOURMALINIZATION

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.10508, 46.3666

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description BLUEBIRD-MOUNT WASHINGTON SHEAR ZONE
Type of structure Regional
Structure description BOULDER BATHOLITH; STRUCTURALLY COMPLEX WITH A POSSIBLE ROOF REMNANT COLLAPSE.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • FROM LAST OF THE BOULDER BATHOLITH INTRUSIVES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1864
Year of first production 1864

Mining district

District name COLORADO DISTRICT
District name CORBIN -WICKES DISTRICT
District name GREGORY DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J. T. AND F. C. SCHRADER, 1933, METALLIFEROUS DEPOSITS OF THE GREATER HELENA MINING REGION, MONTANA, USGS BULL. 842: 232-246

  • Deposit

    KNOPF, A., 1913, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE HELENA REGION, MONTANA. USGS BULL. 527 P. 107-120.

Beyond USGS

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