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Cooper Creek Mining Company Prospect

Occurrence in Sanders county in Montana, United States with commodities Lead, Silver
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  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. Geologic structures
  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 10010259
MRDS ID D003849
Record type Site
Current site name Cooper Creek Mining Company Prospect
Alternate or previous names Copper Creek Mining Co., Neglected Mines Co.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.70408, 47.52431 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 1 MI W OF COOPER PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanders(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Thompson Pass(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

Lolo 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 020N 032W 05 NE Montana

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR THE HEAD OF COOPER GULCH

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary

Analytical data

Result 1929 PUBLICATION STATES HAND SAMPLE ASSAYED 41 % PB WITH "GOOD SILVER VALUES."

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.70408, 47.52431
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description N-S Trending Anticline

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Prospect Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Cooper Creek Mining Co.

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE CAVED AND ABANDONED ADITS; ONE OF WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 800 FT. LONG.

Comments on development

  • 1935 PUBLICATION STATES THERE WERE SIX UNPATENTED CLAIMS. MINE INACTIVE SINCE 1933 .

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: CROWLEY, F. A., 1963 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL 34 , P. 32 .

  • Deposit

    CROWLEY, F. A., 1963 , MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS (EXCEPT FUELS) SANDERS COUNTY, MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 34 , PP. 31 - 32 .

  • Deposit

    GILBERT, F. C., 1935 , DIRECTORY OF MONTANA MINING PROPERTIES: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 15 , P. 69 .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Rojstaczer, Stuart A. U.S. Geological Survey

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