Goat Creek

Occurrence in Sanders county in Montana, United States with commodities Molybdenum, Tungsten, Beryllium, Copper, Silver, 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Ownership information
  14. Reserves and resources
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008410
MRDS ID D000529
Record type Site
Current site name Goat Creek
Alternate or previous names Liver Peak, Goat Creek Tungsten Claims\n

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.23433, 47.6332 (WGS84)
Elevation 1774
Relative position 5 MI NE OF THOMPSON FALLS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanders(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Priscilla Peak(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 022N 028W 30,31 Montana
Montana Principal 022 N 029 W 25 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • 029 W PLS came from MRDS record no. D004152, Deposit ID 10010481, which was deleted as duplicate.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Molybdenum Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary
Beryllium Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore
Scheelite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) skarn
  • (Local) biotite hornfels

Analytical data

Result WO3 0.06 IN ASR SAMPLES,COX SHOWED NO WO3 OR MO

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock type qualifier leucocratic quartz monzonite porphyry

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.23433, 47.6332

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name pluton

Comments on the geologic information

  • skarn with tungsten; stockwork of moly in veinlets in the pluton, and in scheelite, which occurs in the calc-silicate contact metamorphic zone (Harrison and others, 1986)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
  • Type Owner
    Owner Mr. And Mrs. William Alexander
  • Type Owner
    Owner Carpenter Casr, Ben Cox

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 2011
    Total endowment 91000000metric tons
    Remarks Jim bliss's numbers, source unknown
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Molybdenum Mo 0.072 wt-pct Molybdenum Primary 2011

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1969, THIS MONTH IN MINING: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL

  • Deposit

    1969 DIREXPL ASARC

  • Deposit

    FOREST SERVICE FILES, MISSOULA, MT

  • Deposit

    Worthington, J.E., 2007, Porphyry and other molybdenum deposits of Idaho and Montana: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report 07-3, 22 p.

  • Deposit

    Canadian & American MINESCAN Folio, 2009-2010, CD

  • Deposit

    Brookstrom, A.A., Box, S.E., and Zientek, M.L., 1995, Porphyry Mo deposit, descriptive model 21b [Tract 143], in Box, S.E., Bookstrom, A.A., Michael L. Zientek, M.L., Derkey, P.D., Ashley R.P., James E. Elliot, J.E., and Stephen G. Peters, S.G., eds., Assessment of undiscovered mineral resources in the pacific northwest: a contribution to the interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report OF 95-682, p 196-197.

  • Deposit

    Harrison, J.E., Leach, D.L., Kleinkopf, D.M., and Long, C.L., 1986, Resource appraisal map for porphyry molybdenum-tungsten, platinum-group metals, and epithermal silver deposits in the Wallace 1o x 2o quadrangle, Montana and Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1509-H.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Probable deposit type I under probably new model.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-74 King, Robert U. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 31-AUG-11 Causey, J Douglas U.S. Geological Survey Combined data from10010481 and deleted that record. Other data from Jim Bliss compilation for Mo modeling task.
Reporter 01-MAY-80 Chesson, Sharon A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.