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Greenback Mine

Past Producer in Madison county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Arsenic
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019817
MRDS ID DC11635
Record type Site
Current site name Greenback Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.95392, 45.22434 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377
Relative position 4 MILES SOUTH OF VIRGINIA CITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madison(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cirque Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ennis(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ruby(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Madison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 007S 003W 15 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION APPROXIMATE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Pre Belt Pony-Cherry Creek Gneiss Series
    Rock description Pre Belt Pony-Cherry Creek Gneiss Series

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.95392, 45.22434
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR/LENSES
    Strike NE
    Dip 70N

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Associated With Aplite Dikes.

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: VEIN STKS. NE, DIPS 70 N.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Barton Gulch

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TANSLEY, HART, 1933, GEOL RECON-TOBACCO ROOT MTN, MADISON CO, MONT, MONT BUR OF MINES, MEM 9, P 47, 49.

  • Deposit

    LORAN, 1937, GOLD LODE MINING-TOBACCO ROOT MTN, MADISON CO., MONT, USBM INF CIR. 6972, P. 49.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 12-13-1971

  • Deposit

    1933 RECON MBMG, MEM 9

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1980 Doyle, Brien (Wells, John) U.S. Geological Survey

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