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Snowfall Prospect

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019026
MRDS ID DC08345
Record type Site
Current site name Snowfall Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.48046, 47.92237 (WGS84)
Elevation 1268
Relative position 1/3 MI N OF SILVER BUTTE PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Butte Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Thompson Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fisher(hydrologic unit)

Kootenai(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Kootenai 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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 025N 030W 16 SW Montana

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR TRIBUTARY OF THE SILVER BUTTE FISHER RIVER

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue

Analytical data

Result GRAB VEIN SAMPLE FROM THE DISCOVERY PIT ASSAYED 0.03 OZ/TON AU, 2.20 OZ/TON AG AND 1.00 % CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) Upper Prichard or Appekunny Formation
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description General Structural Grain Of Northward Trending Faults Which Are Parallel To Subparallel To Folds

Ore body information

  • Strike EAST
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 0.2M

Comments on the geologic information

  • NEAR PRICHARD-RAVALLI CONTACT ; GEOL.DESC: 8 INCH QTZ VEIN, ASSAYED 1.0% CU, 0.03 OZ AU, 2.20 OZ AG PER TON

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cabinet Mining District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Clyde Roark, Blaze And John Echo

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.002HA
    Overall length 6.1M
    Overall width 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT ON RELOCATED GROUND CONSISTED OF A CAVED ADIT AND A DISCOVERY PIT, 20 BY 10 BY 6 FT. ORIGINAL WORKINGS CONSISTED OF TWO OR MORE ADITS, NOW CAVED.

Comments on development

  • ONE UNPATENTED CLAIM. GROUND WAS RELOCATED IN MAY 1955 .

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: JOHNS, WILLIS, 1970 : MONTANA BUR MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 79 , P. 125 .

  • Deposit

    JOHNS, W. M., 1962 , GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS IN THE KOOTENAI-FLATHEAD AREA NORTHWEST MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 29 , P. 23 .

  • Deposit

    JOHNS, W. M., 1970 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN AND FLATHEAD COUNTIES, MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 79 , P. 125 .

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 01-11-1963

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN EXPOSED BY DISCOVERY PIT. SPARSE ORE MINERALS WERE FOUND ON THE DUMP WITHIN THE RELOCATED GROUND.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1979 Rojstaczer, Stuart A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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