Silver Hill Mine

Occurrence in Deer Lodge county in Montana, United States with commodity Copper
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10096196
MRDS ID W007432
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Hill Mine
Related records 10123472

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.23341, 46.13878 (WGS84)
Elevation 2362
Relative position 100FT BELOW SUMMIT OF SILVER HILL.

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 33 SW OF SW Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Hasmark Formation;Red Lion Formation
    Rock description Hasmark Formationt;Red Lion Formationt

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.23341, 46.13878

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Philipsburg Batholith

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 35 E
    Dip 26 NW
    Thickness 1.22M
    Width 2M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Gangue Is Quartz

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Silver Lake District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 78, P. 238, PL.

  • Deposit

    1906 GEOLMAP EMMONS AND CALKIN

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

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