Quartz Creek Deposit

Occurrence in Granite county in Montana, United States with commodity Corundum
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019462
MRDS ID DC10529
Record type Site
Current site name Quartz Creek Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.56954, 46.316 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cornish Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Flint-Rock(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Beaverhead-Deerlodge 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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 007N 016W 35 Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Corundum Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Corundum Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.56954, 46.316

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Sapphire Mountains Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KAUFMAN, USBM INF. CIRC. 7641, P. 5

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 04-24-1961

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown Conservation Division, USGS (no longer exists)

Beyond USGS

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