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Mayflower Claim

Occurrence in Sanders county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium
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  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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010421
MRDS ID D004063
Record type Site
Current site name Mayflower Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.40625, 47.26294 (WGS84)
Elevation 1061
Relative position 6 MI SOUTHWEST OF DIXON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanders(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

McDonald(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Plains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Flathead(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Sanders

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 017N 022W 04 SE4 OF NW4 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • IN FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION. ON REVAIS CREEK. PART OF DRAKE GROUP; 3 UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Platinum Critical Secondary
Palladium Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • UNABLE TO FIND SOURCE OF PGE DATA (1991); SOURCE COULD BE UNPUBLISHED FOREST SERVICE DATA

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic In Shears, Diorite Altered To Serpentine And Talc

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Diorite
    Rock description Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Belt Supergroup
    Rock description Belt Supergroup, Ravalli Group, Burke Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.40625, 47.26294
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northwest Trending Folds And Faults
Type of structure Local
Structure description North-Striking Faults And Shears

Ore body information

  • General form VEINS AND IRREGULAR TO TABULAR MASSES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Of Dike With Country Rock

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOLOGIC INFORMATION NOT PROVIDED IN USFS REPORT BUT PRESUMED SAME AS AT DRAKE MINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 91.44M
    Overall depth 7.62M

Comments on the workings information

  • ADITS, SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. FOREST SERVICE FILES, MISSOULA, MONT.

  • Deposit

    CROWLEY, F.A., 1963, MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS (EXCEPT FUELS), SANDERS COUNTY, MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 34, P. 40.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UNPUBLISHED MODEL NAME: REVAIS CREEK CU-AU-PGE.
Deposit SEE ALSO: MRDS WO26566.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1980 Chesson, Sharon A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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