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Golden Antler Mine

Producer in Madison county in Montana, United States with commodity Chlorite
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010808
MRDS ID D004791
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Antler Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.31754, 45.65962 (WGS84)
Elevation 1524
Relative position 2.5 MILES SW OF SILVER STAR.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madison(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Star(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jefferson(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management MT)

Bureau of Land Management MT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Madison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 002S 006W 14 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4, SECTION 14.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chlorite Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Rutile Gangue
Zircon Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoarchean
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoarchean
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Pre Belt Series
    Rock description Pre Belt Series

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.31754, 45.65962
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Chlorite Veins Parallel Well-Developed Vertical Joints.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Silver Star District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Robt. Nolte, Sylvan Donegan

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION BEGAN IN 1977.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BERG, R.B., 1979, TALC AND CHLORITE DEPOSITS IN MONTANA MT. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL., MEM. 45, P. 19-21.

  • Deposit

    GSA ABST WITH PROG., 1979, P. 263. R.B. BERG ARTICLE

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO OBVIOUS GENETIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SILVER STAR GOLDVEINS AND THE CHLORITE VEINS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-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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