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Little Group

Past Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019962
MRDS ID DC12062
Record type Site
Current site name Little Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.647, 45.68879 (WGS84)
Elevation 1841
Relative position 4.3 MI N25E OF MELROSE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Melrose(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Hole(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 002S 008W 06 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • NW/4 OF THE NE/4 OF SECTION 7.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.647, 45.68879
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Width 12.19M

Comments on the geologic information

  • WINCHELL (1914) REPORTS BASIC IGNEOUS DIKES NEAR WORKINGS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Melrose (Soap Gulch) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 274.32M
    Overall depth 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • 30 FT ADIT WITH 150 FT SHAFT AND 415 FT CROSSCUT ON NORTH SIDE OF CANYON, ADIT WITH TWO BRANCHES, 200 AND 145 FT ON SOUTH SIDE OF CANYON

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 574, P. 94.

  • Deposit

    SAHIREN, U.M., 1950, GEOL. AND ORE DEPOSITS-ROCHESTER DISTRICT, MADISON CO., MT: MT. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL., MEM. 19, P. 51.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 05-23-1963

  • Deposit

    1914 RECON WINCHELL, A.N., U.S.G.S. BULL. 574

  • Deposit

    1950 GEOLMAP MBMG MEM. 19

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN WIDTH RANGES FROM 2 TO 40 FT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1980 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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