Argo Mine

Past Producer in Granite county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Tungsten
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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008779
MRDS ID D001152
Record type Site
Current site name Argo Mine
Related records 10124172

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.58149, 46.57628 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position S SLOPE OF SLIDEROCK MT. NEAR HEAD OF HARVEY CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Spink Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Missoula East(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

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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 010N 016W 35 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1959)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ferberite Ore
Gold Ore
Wolframite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result LEVEL 3 ASS. 4.10 % WO3 TO 0.01% WO3
Result 2.45OZ AG TO 0.06 OZ AG
Result 2.78OZ AU TO 0.0 OZAU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Grinnell;Grinnell
    Rock description Grinnell;Grinnell

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NE
    Dip 35 SE
    Length 381M
    Width 0.76M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Alps District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner James F. Mccarthy (Estate)
    Home office Wallace, Id.

Comments on the production information

  • PROPERTY FIRST MINED FOR AU. NO RECORDED TUNGSTEN PRODUCTION.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1432.56M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 MAIN ADIT LEVELS AND SHORT RAISES. INTERMEDIATE LEVEL AND ADIT NUMBER 2 ARE CONNECTED BY AN INCLINE.

Comments on development

  • FERBERITE WAS FIRST RECOGNIZED BETWEEN 1933-1936. A BRIEF EXPLORATION PROGRAM WAS DONE IN 1951.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M. AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    USBM REP INVES 6334, P. 5, 12-16.

  • Deposit

    DMEA RECORDS

  • Production

    USBM RI 6334, P. 12-16.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE VEIN USUALLY CUTS THE BEDS BUT IN A FEW PLACES IT PARALLELS THEM. A NUMBER OF POSTMINERAL FAULTS OFFSET THE VEIN A FEW FEET AND ONE DISPLACES IT ABOUT 80 FT. THE VEIN HAS BEEN EXPLORED FOR 1250 FT ALONG ITS STRIKE AND 850 FT DOWN DIP.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1973 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1980 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 09-JUN-1995 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references