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Guy Mine

Past Producer in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Zinc, Gold, Lead, Molybdenum
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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. 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 10010832
MRDS ID D004823
Record type Site
Current site name Guy Mine
Related records 10147841

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.07034, 45.45822 (WGS84)
Elevation 2469
Relative position 1.25 MI W OF COMET MTN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Elkhorn Hot Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salmon(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 004S 012W 27 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • C OF SE OF NW 27

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Brecciation

Analytical data

Result SELECTED ORE SAMPLE ASSAYED 10.25% CU, 4.40% ZN, 0.022% MO, 10.25 OZ AG/TON, AND 0.02 OZ AU/TON.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.07034, 45.45822
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Pioneer Batholith

Ore body information

  • Width 3.66M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1891

Mining district

District name Elkhorn District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Frayne Fitzwater

Comments on the workings information

  • 1907 WORKINGS CONSISTED OF A 50-FT. SHAFT, THE BOTTOM 25 FEET INCLINED, AND A 100-FOOT VERTICAL SHAFT. BOTH WERE FLOODED TO COLLARS IN 1972.

Comments on development

  • ONE PATENTED CLAIM

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85, P. 109

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN MATERIAL IS WHITE BRECCIATED QUARTZ RECEMENTED BY DARK QUARTZ. IN 1891 VEIN REPORTEDLY WAS 12 FT. WIDE, OF WHICH 4 FEET RAN 100 OZ AG/TON.

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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