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Copper King Mine

Past Producer in Sanders county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Antimony, Bismuth
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  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 10019726
MRDS ID DC11284
Record type Site
Current site name Copper King Mine
Alternate or previous names Mascot Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.19072, 47.61848 (WGS84)
Elevation 792
Relative position 1 3/4 MI NW OF SNIDER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanders(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eddy Mountain(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

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 Sanders

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 022N 028W 33 SE 1/4 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • ON W SLOPE OF THOMPSON RIVER, 3.5 MI N OF US HIGHWAY 10-A.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Covellite Ore
Enargite Ore
Malachite Ore
Tenorite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result MINE SAMPLE ASSAYED 0.0025 OZ/TON AU, 14.10 OZ/TON AG, 16.70 % CU, 0.4 % PB, 0.5 % ZN, 0.60 AN, 0.15 BI.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Ravalli Group
    Rock description Ravalli Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.19072, 47.61848
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description N - S Trending Anticline

Ore body information

  • Strike N 76 DEG W
    Dip 65 DEG SE
    Width 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Steeply - Dipping Faults In Brittle Quartzite And Argillaceous Quartzite

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: AVER. 15.3 OZ AG/TON, 13.2% CU.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1885
Year of first production 1890

Mining district

District name Thompson River District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner George Wurm (Estate)

Production statistics

  • Year 1920
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^12.0 Oz/Ton Ag, 13.6 % Cu
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Copper Copper 14wt-pct
    Minor Ore Silver Silver 339g/mt
  • Year 1922
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^21.0 Oz/Ton Ag, 17.3 % Cu
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Copper Copper 17wt-pct
    Minor Ore Silver Silver 593g/mt
  • Year 1923
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^22.7 Oz/Ton Ag, 0.028 Oz/Ton Au, 19.8 % Cu
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Copper Copper 20wt-pct
    Minor Ore Gold Gold 1g/mt
    Minor Ore Silver Silver 641g/mt
  • Year 1925
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^27.1 Oz/Ton Ag, 24.1 % Cu
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Copper Copper 24wt-pct
    Minor Ore Silver Silver 765g/mt
  • Year 1926
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^10.2 Oz/Ton Ag, 8.2 % Cu
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Copper Copper 8wt-pct
    Minor Ore Silver Silver 288g/mt
  • Year 1947
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^3.50 Oz/Ton Ag, 1.9 % Cu
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Copper Copper 2wt-pct
    Minor Ore Silver Silver 99g/mt
  • Year 1948
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^7.73 Oz/Ton Ag, 0.0072 Oz/Ton Au, 5.3 % Cu
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Copper Copper 5wt-pct
    Minor Ore Gold Gold 0g/mt
    Minor Ore Silver Silver 218g/mt

Comments on the production information

  • CUMMULATIVE PRODUCTION FIGURES DERIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING YEARS: 1913 , 1916 , 1917 , 1919 , 1920 , 1922 , 1923 , 1925 , 1926 , 1947 AND 1948 . WHILE PRODUCTION OF SOME COPPER ORE WAS NOTED IN AN 1890 PUBLICATION, THE AMOUNT OF ORE PRODUCED WAS UNMENTIONED.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 213.36M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ADIT LEVELS, ABOUT 130 FT APART VERTICALLY AND AN INTERMEDIATE LEVEL 60 FEET BELOW THE UPPER ADIT. LOWER ADIT IS AT AN ELEVATION OF ABOUT 2500 FT.

Comments on development

  • TWO PATENTED CLAIMS, THE COPPER KING AND THE MASCOT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: CROWLEY, F. A., 1963 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 34 , P. 43 .

  • Deposit

    CROWLEY, F. A., 1963 , MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS (EXCEPT FUELS), SANDERS COUNTY, MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 34 , PP 42 - 43 .

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 07-05-1963

  • Production

    CROWLEY, F. A., 1963 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 34 , P. 42 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AVERAGE OBSERVABLE WIDTH OF THE VEINS IS ABOUT 6 IN; HOWEVER IN THE UPPER ADIT, WHERE MINERALIZATION IS MOST INTENSE, VEIN WIDTH IS PROBABLY GREATER. MINERALIZATION DECREASES WITH DEPTH.

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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