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Beal Lode

Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Reserves and resources
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013390
MRDS ID D009655
Record type Site
Current site name Beal Lode
Related records 10078301

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.88146, 45.95406 (WGS84)
Elevation 2179
Relative position 13 MI S15E OF ANACONDA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dickie Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(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 Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 002N 010W 06 E2 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • 1 MI S20W OF BEAL HILL. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Hornfels
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Colorado Group
    Rock description Colorado Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.88146, 45.95406
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • N80e Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Siberia (German Gulch) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Beal Mining Co.
    Home office Spokane, Wa.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1981
    Total resources 1814000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 0.933 g/mt Gold Major 1981
    Silver Ag 0.933 g/mt Silver Minor 1981

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN PIT ON SITE OF EARLIER HYDRAULIC WASHING FOR PLACER GOLD.

Comments on development

  • LEACHING PLATFORMS BUILT IN 1981.

Reference information

Comments on the other database information

  • RECORD NUMBER 734 IS A POTENTIAL DUPLICATE OF THIS RECORD

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PEARSON, ROBERT C., 1981, FIELD INSPECTION (USGS)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DISSEMINATED PYRITE ADJACENT TO N80E FAULTS.
Deposit THIS SITE IS APPARENTLY SOURCE FOR GERMAN GULCH PLACERS. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1982 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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