| 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: | -115.23433, 47.6332 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1774 |
| Relative position | 5 MI NE OF THOMPSON FALLS |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Montana | Sanders |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana Principal | 022N | 028W | 30,31 | Montana | |
| Montana Principal | 022 N | 029 W | 25 | Montana |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Molybdenum | Primary |
| Tungsten Critical | Primary |
| Beryllium Critical | Tertiary |
| Copper | Tertiary |
| Silver | Tertiary |
| Gold | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Molybdenite | Ore |
| Scheelite | Ore |
| Result | WO3 0.06 IN ASR SAMPLES,COX SHOWED NO WO3 OR MO |
|---|
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite |
| Rock type qualifier | leucocratic quartz monzonite porphyry |
| (1) | -115.23433, 47.6332 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Local |
|---|---|
| Structure name | pluton |
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | Yes |
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.) |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Mr. And Mrs. William Alexander |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Carpenter Casr, Ben Cox |
| Type | In-situ | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate year | 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| Total endowment | 91000000metric tons | ||||||||||||||
| Remarks | Jim bliss's numbers, source unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D000529 | |
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D004152 | Also used in current database as Dep_ID 10010481. |
1969, THIS MONTH IN MINING: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL
1969 DIREXPL ASARC
FOREST SERVICE FILES, MISSOULA, MT
Worthington, J.E., 2007, Porphyry and other molybdenum deposits of Idaho and Montana: Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report 07-3, 22 p.
Canadian & American MINESCAN Folio, 2009-2010, CD
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.
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.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | Probable deposit type I under probably new model. |
| 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 |
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