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Gold Chief Lode

Prospect 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10022805
MRDS ID FS00286
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Chief Lode

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.66339, 45.88129 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position HEAD OF DIVIDE CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buxton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(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 002N 009W 36 Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO AU WAS FOUND BY EXAMINER, SOME CU RUNNING ABOUT 2% - 3% THROUGHOUT AN APLITE DIKE

Analytical data

Result NO ASSAY REPORT

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Butte Quartz Monzonite;Aplite
    Rock description Butte Quartz Monzonite;Aplite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.66339, 45.88129
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • APLITE DIKE IS A POST - MAGMATIC EFFECT OF THE BOULDER BATHOLITH

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1936
Discoverer Yotal M. Stanton

Mining district

District name Divide Creek Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Yotal M. Stanton

Comments on the workings information

  • 1 DECREPIT TAR PAPER CABIN. SHAFT 6 FEET BY 6 FEET BY 8 FEET INTO DECOMPOSED GRANITE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1938 DIREXPL USFS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Steward, Candis A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1983 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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