Champion Silver Mine

Past Producer in Deer Lodge county in Montana, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Antimony, Arsenic, Chromium
Sections on this page
  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. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071312
MRDS ID W014639
Record type Site
Current site name Champion Silver Mine
Related records 10173366

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.61089, 46.23296 (WGS84)
Elevation 1963
Relative position 13 MILES SE OF DEER LODGE, 20 MILES N OF BUTTE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Deer Lodge(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lockhart Meadows(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(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)

Federal lands

Beaverhead-Deerlodge 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 Deer Lodge

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 006N 008W 28,33 Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Chromium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrargyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 500 PPM AG, 500 PPM CR
Result 1000 PPM PB, 1000 PPM ZN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Butte Quartz Monzonite (Boulder Batholith);Butte Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Butte Quartz Monzonite (Boulder Batholith);Butte Quartz Monzonite
    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) -112.61089, 46.23296

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Boulder Batholith

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Orofino District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Champion Silver Mining Co, Denver, Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Home office Butte, Mt

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION WAS INTERMITTENT FROM 1922-1965.

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT, ORE BINS, PROBABLE MILL, FLOODED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 92, P. 6.

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 31, P. 20

  • Deposit

    USGS-USBM YEARBOOKS 1925-1965

  • Production

    MBMG MEM 31, P. 20.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WATER DRAINS DOWN FROM MINE TO CREEK. 10 ACRES OF DISTURBED AREA. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1975 Mlynarczyk, Meg S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1983 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.