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Silver Strand Property

Occurrence in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, Lead
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019052
MRDS ID DC08411
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Strand Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.63184, 47.42181 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219
Relative position 2 MI E OF BORAX

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lookout Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Lolo 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 019N 032W 11 NE 1/4 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR INTERSECTION OF ST. REGIS RIVER AND SHAMROCK GULCH

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.63184, 47.42181
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Nw Trending Fault (Silver Creek). Throws Along Fault Range From 2000 To Several Thousand Feet.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Branch Of Silver Creek Fault Which Trends Nw

Comments on the geologic information

  • SILVER CREEK FAULT MAY BE CONTINUOUS WITH FAULTS IN THE ATLAS PROPERTY NEAR MULLAN, IDAHO WHERE 20 FT. WIDE VEINS OF ANKERITE CONTAINING CHALCOPYRITE AND SOME GALENA ARE KNOWN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name (Unorganized)

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • AS OF 1956 , ONLY A SHORT PORTION OF ONE TUNNEL WAS ACCESSIBLE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WALLACE, R. E. AND HOSTERMAN, J. W., 1956 , RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGY OF WESTERN MINERAL COUNTY, MONTANA: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1027-M, P. 608 .

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 02-15-1963

Reporter information

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

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