Monkey East Camp Zone

Occurrence in Sweet Grass county in Montana, United States with commodities Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Gold, Nickel, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model 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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048514
MRDS ID MP00103
Record type Site
Current site name Monkey East Camp Zone
Alternate or previous names J-M Reef

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.04691, 45.41825 (WGS84)
Elevation 2789
Relative position ABOUT 0.25 MI FROM BRASS MONKEY CAMP; ABOUT 0.5 MI SOUTH OF SOUTH PICKET PIN LAKE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweet Grass(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Picket Pin Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gardiner(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Stillwater(hydrologic unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Custer Gallatin 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 Sweet Grass

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED. IN CUSTER NATIONAL FOREST

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Platinum Critical Primary
Palladium Critical Primary
Rhodium Critical Primary
Gold Tertiary
Nickel Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO PUBLISHED PGE DATA AVAILABLE FOR THIS AREA

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pentlandite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Apatite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Hornblende Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Olivine Gangue
Phlogopite Gangue
Plagioclase Gangue
Pyroxene Gangue
Serpentine Gangue
Talc Gangue
Tremolite Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 4
USGS model code 2b
Deposit model name Merensky Reef PGE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro > Norite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoarchean
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro > Troctolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Anorthosite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Harzburgite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.04691, 45.41825

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description The Stillwater Complex Is Exposed Along The Northern Margin Of The Beartooth Uplift, One Of Several Laramide Basement-Cored Ranges That Make Up The Rocky Mountain Foreland Of South-Central Montana (Foose And Others, 1961: Kulik And Schmidt, 1988)

Ore body information

  • General form STRAITFORM, DISSEMINATED
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Magma Mixing

Comments on the geologic information

  • AGE OF STILLWATER COMPLEX IS 2,705 +/- 4 MA BASED ON U-PB SYSTEMATICS ON ZIRCON-BADDELEYITE (PREMO AND OTHERS, 1990)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name In Stillwater Complex

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEE ALSO: MRDS MP00087.
Deposit THE J-M REEF IS 400-450 M ABOVE THE BASE OF THE BANDED SERIES IN BASAL PART OF ANORTHOSITE I SUBZONE OF TROCTOLITE-ANORTHOSITE ZONE I. THIS COINCIDES WITH THE REAPPEARANCE OF OLIVINE IN THE CRYSTALLIZATION SEQUENCE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1991 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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