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Green Copper

Past Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Arsenic
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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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014490
MRDS ID D011290
Record type Site
Current site name Green Copper

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.51756, 46.00823 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 0.5 KM SW OF BERKLEY PIT

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 007W 18 Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Enargite Ore
Gold Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 3-7.5% CU 0.5 OZ AG TO EACH 1% CU/TON, $0.70 AU/TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Butte Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Butte Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.51756, 46.00823
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike EAST-WEST
    Dip 65 DEGREES - 80 DEGREES S
    Length 304.8M
    Width 1.52M
    Depth to top 0M

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 production information

  • PRODUCED IN 1939.

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 74, P. 189-190, 195.

  • Deposit

    USGS-USBM MINERAL YEARBOOKS. 1938, 1939

  • Production

    USGS-USBM MINERAL YEARBOOKS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RICH SECONDARY PYRITOUS ORES THAT CHANGE TO LEAN AND ZINCKY QUARTZ-PYRITE ORE A FEW HUNDRED FEET BELOW THE SURFACE. THE VEIN IS THE GREEN COPPER.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1984 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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