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Anaconda Clay Pit

Past Producer in Deer Lodge county in Montana, United States with commodity Fire Clay (Refractory)
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014297
MRDS ID D011010
Record type Site
Current site name Anaconda Clay Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.90923, 46.161 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 3.5 KM SE OF LOST CREEK TOWN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Deer Lodge(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Anaconda North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Deer Lodge

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 005N 010W 30 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH OF THE LOST CREEK ROAD.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fire Clay (Refractory) Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE PLASTICITY, THE DRYING AND FIRING SHRINKAGES ARE LOW. P.C.E IS CONE 32. IT IS AN EXCELLENT GROG MATERIAL AND WHEN MIXED WITH PLASTIC CLAY IT CAN BE USED AS A HIGH FIRE CLAY.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Feldspar Ore
Kaolin Ore
Quartz Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Trachyte
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Trachyte

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.90923, 46.161
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lost Creek District

Comments on the workings information

  • QUARRY PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG 1C 23, P. 14, 27, 30, 34, 37

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED AND KAOLINEZED VOLCANIC ROCK ABOUT THE COMPOSITION OF TRACHYTE. IT IS HARD AND DENSE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1983 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) 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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