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Antelope-Pony District

Occurrence in Madison county in Montana, United States with commodities Chromium, Osmium, Iridium
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10038141
MRDS ID M045427
Record type Site
Current site name Antelope-Pony District
Related records 10221772

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.95725, 45.67601 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Relative position 3.5 MI NORTHWEST OF PONY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madison(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pony(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jefferson(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 002S 003W 10 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • IN TOBACCO ROOT MOUNTAINS. EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN. LOCATION GIVEN IS FOR PROSPECT SYMBOL ON 7,600 FT CONTOUR NEAR CENTER SEC. 10

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary
Osmium Tertiary
Iridium Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PGE MINERALS IDENTIFIED BY X-RAY DIFFRACTION OR ELECTRON MICROSCOPE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.95725, 45.67601
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form UNKNOWN

Comments on the geologic information

  • NO GEOLOGIC INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN REFERENCE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Antelope-Pony District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAGE, N.J, CLARK, A.L., DESBOROUGH, G.A., AND PARKER, R.L., 1973, PLATINUM-GROUP METALS, IN BROBST, D.A., AND PRATT, W.P., EDS., UNITED STATES MINERAL RESOURCES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 820, P. 539, TABLE 110

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION AVAILABLE IN REFERENCE; UNPUBLISHED MODEL NAME: WYOMING PROVINCE CHROMITITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1975 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1980 Doyle, Brien (Wells, John) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Peterson, Jocelyn A. 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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