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Iowa Mine

Past Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Manganese
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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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014473
MRDS ID D011266
Record type Site
Current site name Iowa Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.60089, 46.02629 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 3.2 KM NW OF BIG BUTTE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Butte 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 Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 003N 008W 09 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • ON THE CREST OF GRANITE KNOLLS WHICH MARK THE LIMITS OF THE LAKE-BED DEPRESSION.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Wad Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation To 100 Ft

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Boulder Batholith
    Rock description Boulder Batholith
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.60089, 46.02629
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike E-W
    Dip 80S
    Width 0.41M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Butte District

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT, DRIFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE VEIN LIES ON THE CONTACT OF THE QUARTZ MONZONITE AND APLITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1984 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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