1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Chickaman Mine

Occurrence in Missoula county in Montana, United States with commodity Copper
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010277
MRDS ID D003874
Record type Site
Current site name Chickaman Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.19456, 46.75182 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097
Relative position 6 MILES WEST OF LOLO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Missoula(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blue Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Missoula West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hamilton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bitterroot(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 Missoula

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 012N 021W 35 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ON SLOPE EAST OF CHICKAMAN GULCH JUST NORTH OF LOLO CREEK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Chalcopyrite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Ore Is Almost Completely Oxidized.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.19456, 46.75182
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lolo Creek

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 ADITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SAHINEN, U. M., 1957 , MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES, MISSOULA AND RAVALLI CO., MONT., MONT. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL 8 , P. 40

  • Deposit

    1957 COMPILE MBMG, BULL

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Doyle, Brien (Wells, John) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Maps centered on this site