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Payday Claim

Past Producer in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010769
MRDS ID D004734
Record type Site
Current site name Payday Claim
Related records 10196990

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.87506, 45.3249 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position 3 MILES NORTH OF ARGENTA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ermont(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaverhead(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(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 Beaverhead

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 006S 010W 07 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • CENTER OF THE S 1/2, S 1/2, SECTION 7 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Lead Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Gouge

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Missoula
    Rock description Missoula
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.87506, 45.3249
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES
    Strike N12E
    Dip 75 E
    Width 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1934
Discoverer Geo. And Dick Fleming

Mining district

District name Argenta District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Jack Knight
    Home office Dillon, Mt.
    First year 1964

Comments on the production information

  • 7 PRODUCTION YEARS

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHAFTS AND SEVERAL BULLDOZER CUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85, P. 60

  • Deposit

    1972 RECON M.B.M.G. BULL. 8

  • Production

    M.B.M.G. BULL. 85.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL LENSES SIMILAR TO THE MAYDAY DEPOSITS WERE THE LIKELY ORE SOURCE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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