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Lone Pine Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010815
MRDS ID D004800
Record type Site
Current site name Lone Pine Mine
Alternate or previous names Quartz Hill, Argyle, Jay Hawk
Related records 10123748

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.8995, 45.71489 (WGS84)
Elevation 2286
Relative position 5.75 MILES SSE OF WISE RIVER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Vipond Park(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Hole(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 001S 011W 25 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • SE CORNER, SECTION 25

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Bornite Ore
Cerargyrite Ore
Embolite Ore
Freibergite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrargyrite Ore
Silver Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Stephanite Ore
Barite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Hasmark;Red Lion Formation
    Rock description Hasmark;Red Lion Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.8995, 45.71489
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Area May Be Roof Pendant Between Pioneer And Boulder Batholiths, Quartz Hill Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR SHOOTS, TABULAR
    Length 304.8M
    Width 3.05M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 548.64M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Dolomite-Shale Contact, Crest And Flanks Of Anticline, Dolomite Bedding-Planes

Comments on the geologic information

  • BEST ORE WAS BEDDING-PLANE DEPOSITS. LITTLE COMMERCIAL ORE CAME FROM FISSURE VEINS OVER 100 FEET FROM THE DOLOMITE-SHALE CONTACT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1865
Year of first production 1867

Mining district

District name Quartz Hill (Vipond) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Georesources, Inc.
    Home office Williston, N.D.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Quartz Hill Mining Co.
    Home office Portland, Or.

Comments on the production information

  • MAIN PRODUCTION WAS IN 1933-1962. PRODUCTION YEARS: 1867-1895, 1908, 1933-1950, 1958, 1961-62.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 3048M
    Overall depth 259.08M

Comments on the workings information

  • 600-FT. LONE PINE INCLINED SHAFT WAS STOPED DOWN TO 1800 FT. LEVEL. WEST LONE PINE SHAFT WAS 600-FT. DEEP WITH 200, 300, 400, 500, AND 600-FT. LEVELS. A 600-FT. INCLINED WINZE REACHED A DEPTH OF 850 FEET, WITH LARGE STOPES AND THREE LEVELS OF DRIFTS. BOTH SHAFTS NOW CAVED AT COLLAR (1972).

Comments on development

  • MINE PRODUCED CONSIDERABLE CONCENTRATING ORE PRIOR TO 1894 SILVER PANIC AND DEPLETION OF LONE PINE ORE BODY. LONE PINE WAS REOPENED IN 1928 AND A DRIFT ON THE 200-FT. LEVEL DISCOVERED THE WEST LONE PINE SHOOT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 574.

  • Deposit

    GILBERT, F.C., 1935, DIRECTORY OF MINING PROPERTIES: MT. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL., MEMOIR 15, P. 5.

  • Deposit

    LORAIN, S.H., 1937, MINING METHODS, COSTS OF QUARTZ HILL MINING CO: U.S. BUR MINES, INF. CIRC. 6963

  • Deposit

    GOUDARZI, H., 1941, GEOL. AND ORE DEPOSITS, QUARTZ HILL AREA, MT: MT. COLL. OF MIN. SCI AND TECH., M.S. THESIS,

  • Deposit

    TAYLOR, A.V., 1942, QUARTZ HILL DISTRICT IN NEWHOUSE, W.H., ED. ORE DEPOSITS AS RELATED TO STRUCTURAL FEATURES: PRINCETON UNIV. PRESS.

  • Deposit

    GEACH, R.D., 1972, MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS, BEAVERHEAD CO., MT: MT. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 85, P. 137

  • Deposit

    REYNER, M.L., 1950, DIRECTORY OF MT. MINING PROPERTIES, 1949: MT. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL., MEM. 31, P. 8.

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85, P. 137.

  • Deposit

    1914 RECON WINCHELL, A.N., U.S.G.S. BULL. 574

  • Deposit

    1972 COMPILE M.B.M.G. BULL. 85

  • Production

    M.B.M.G. BULL. 85

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1860'S
Deposit BEDDING-PLANE ORES ARE AT NOSE OF QUARTZ HILL ANTICLINE WHERE SE-TRENDING FISSURE VEINS ABUT AGAINST SHALE AT OBLIGUE ANGLES. MINERALIZING SOLUTIONS RISING THROUGH THE FISSURES WERE DAMMED AT THE SHALE AND SPREAD UPWARD BENEATH IT TO FORM BEDDING-PLANE REPLACEMENT DEPOSITS. THE LONE PINE BODY IS ON THE EAST FLANK OF THE QUARTZ HILL ANTICLINE, THE WEST LONE PINE BODY IS NEAR THE AXIAL PLANE AT THE ANTICLINE'S NOSE.
Deposit THE LONE PINE GROUP PRODUCED 83% OF THE ORE FROM THE VIPOND-QUARTZ HILL DISTRICTS BETWEEN 1902 AND 1965. (ACCORDING TO GEACH FIGURES, 1972) ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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