Holliday Mine

Past Producer in Sanders county in Montana, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper
Sections on this page
  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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019032
MRDS ID DC08363
Record type Site
Current site name Holliday Mine
Alternate or previous names Homestead Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.90964, 47.97598 (WGS84)
Elevation 1036
Relative position 6.2 MI SW OF NOXON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanders(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gem Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Thompson Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(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 Sanders

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 026N 034W 36,25 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR THE HEADWATERS OF THE WEST FORK OF PILGRIM CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Silver Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Marcasite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization Along The Massive Fault In The Main Adit.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Wallace Formation
    Rock description Wallace Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.90964, 47.97598

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description 30 Ft Fault Zone, 280 Ft From The Portal Of The Main Adit. Fault Strikes N 45 Deg W And Appears To Dip Vertically. Fault Plane Proper Is Filled With 12 Inches Of Clay.

Ore body information

  • General form PODS, LENSES AND IRREGULAR BUNCHES OF SULFIDES ARE DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT
    Strike N 75 W
    Dip 72 SW
    Thickness 0.38M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • HOST BEDS STRIKE N 25 DEG TO 45 DEG W AND DIP 9 DEG TO 25 DEG NE. QUARTZ AND PYRITE WERE THE FIRST TO MINERALIZE. SPHALERITE AND CHALCOPYRITE WERE PROBABLY DEPOSITED SIMULTANEOUSLY BECAUSE MOST SPHALERITE CONTAINS MINUTE EXSOLUTION BLEBS OF CHALCOPYRITE ALONG CRYSTAL PLANES. MOST CHALCOPYRITE, HOWEVER FORMS RELATIVELY LARGE MASSES. ALL MINERALS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF PYRITE AND MARCASITE OCCUR THROUGHOUT THE VEIN AS BLEBS AND MASSES WITH RELATIVELY LITTLE INTERMINGLING OF SPECIES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1939
Discoverer Homestead Mining Co
Year of first production 1961

Mining district

District name Pilgrim Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Silver Mark Mines, Inc.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 350.52M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO ADITS APPROXIMATELY 300 AND 850 FT LONG RESPECTIVELY.

Comments on development

  • SEVEN UNPATENTED CLAIMS. ORIGINAL DEVELOPMENT WORK WAS BY SURFACE PITS. MINE WAS INACTIVE FROM 1950 - 56 . IN 1957 MINE WAS REOPENED BY HOLLIDAY MINES AND WAS DEVELOPED INTERMITTENTLY THROUGH 1971 .

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CROWLEY, F. A., 1963 , MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS (EXCEPT FUELS) SANDERS COUNTY, MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 34 , P. 22 - 23 .

  • Deposit

    CROWLEY, F. A., 1962 , DIRECTORY OF KNOWN MINING ENTERPRISES, 1961 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 25 , P. 45 .

  • Deposit

    LAWSON, D. C., 1972 , DIRECTORY OF MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1971 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 86 , P. 16 .

  • Deposit

    LAWSON, D. C., 1973 , DIRECTORY OF MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1972 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 88 , P. 22 .

  • Production

    CROWLEY, F. W., 1963 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 34 , P. 22 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS ARE STRICTLY FRACTURE FILLINGS WITH NO SIGN OF REPLACEMENT. VEINS ARE UNIQUE IN THAT THERE IS NO NOTICEABLE WALL ROCK ALTERATION. VEIN WIDTHS RANGE FROM 1 TO 15 INCHES, BUT THE SMALLER VEINS ARE USUALLY GROUPED IN PARALLEL CLUSTERS SO THAT THE TOTAL OR ACCUMULATED VEIN WIDTH AT ANYONE POINT IS RARELY LESS THAN 6 INCHES.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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External references