Luxemburg Mine

Past Producer in Deer Lodge county in Montana, United States with commodity Gold
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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10069753
MRDS ID W007425
Record type Site
Current site name Luxemburg Mine
Related records 10245793

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.24119, 46.19267 (WGS84)
Elevation 2067
Relative position EAST OF GEORGETOWN LAKE APPROXIMATELY 2 KM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Deer Lodge(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 Deer Lodge

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 005N 013W 16 NW OF NW Montana

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Cable Stock
    Rock description Cable Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.24119, 46.19267

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Philipsburg Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Cable Stock

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 45 E
    Dip 75 W
    Length 50M
    Width 3M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Cable Stock; North Eastward - Trending Folds And Faults.

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRANODIORITE IS SHEETED ALONG PLANES PARALLEL TO VEINS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875
Discoverer Salton Cameron

Mining district

District name Georgetown (Southern Cross, Cable) District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Laribee Brothers And Mrs. Mary Kelley, Deer Lodge

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 210M

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT TUNNEL, 2 SHALLOW SHAFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 84, P. 18, 19.

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 78 P. 236.

  • Deposit

    MBMG INF CIRC 13, PL 4.

  • Deposit

    1906 GEOLMAP EMMONS AND CALKIN

  • Production

    EARLL, MBMG BULL. 84

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 5 VEINS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1975 Krohn, Douglas H. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1980 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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