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Gold Coin Mine

Past Producer in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010835
MRDS ID D004827
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Coin Mine
Related records 10220955

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.97729, 45.686 (WGS84)
Elevation 2682
Relative position ON NORTH FLANK OF SHEEP MTN.

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 04 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4, SW 1/4, SECTION 4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Iron Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Intense Fracturing

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.97729, 45.686
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form NARROW STRINGERS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1900

Mining district

District name Quartz Hill (Vipond) District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO CAVED ADITS

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY WAS REPORTEDLY WORKED PRE-1900 FOR HIGH-GRADE GOLD ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85, P. 135

  • Deposit

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

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

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