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Camp Creek Corundum

Occurrence in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodity Corundum
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010812
MRDS ID D004796
Record type Site
Current site name Camp Creek Corundum
Related records 10148277

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.52226, 45.10157 (WGS84)
Elevation 2146
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position 9.5 MI S35E OF DILLON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ashbough Canyon(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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Beaverhead

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 008S 008W 36,25 NE OF NE (36); SE OF SE (25) Montana

Comments on the location information

  • DEPOSIT IS WHERE A SE-TRENDING RIDGE CROSSES THE SECTION LINE BETWEEN 36 AND 25 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Corundum Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Corundum Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Margarite Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Analytical data

Result HEINRICH (1950) ESTIMATED THE CORUNDUM CONTENT OF THE DEPOSITS AS RANGING FROM 5 TO 35

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Pre Belt
    Rock description Pre Belt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoarchean
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoarchean

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.52226, 45.10157
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Two Narrow, Vertical Diabase Dikes Cut Across The Corundum Lenses And The Schist

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Length 85.34M
    Width 30.48M

Comments on the geologic information

  • CORUNDUM FORMS BLUE-GRAY BARREL-SHAPED CRYSTALS AVERAGING .25 INCH, BUT AS LARGE AS 1 INCH IN DIAMETER.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1949
Discoverer E.W. Heinrich

Mining district

District name Ruby Range

Land status

Ownership category State

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GEACH, R.D., 1972, MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS, BEAVERHEAD CO., MT: MT. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 85, P. 15

  • Deposit

    1972 COMPILE M.B.M.G. BULL. 8

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THREE LENTICULAR MASSES OF CORUNDUM-BEARING ROCK (RANGING 20-130 FT. LONG AND 4-20 FT. THICK) LIE WITHIN A LENS OF MARBLE

Reporter information

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

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