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Gold Bug Mine

Past Producer in Phillips county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Iron, Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071877
MRDS ID W015572
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Bug Mine
Related records 10124596

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -108.61745, 47.91021 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position APPROXIMATELY 1 MILE NORTH OF LANDUSKY, MONTANA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Phillips(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Zortman(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Zortman(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lewistown(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fort Peck Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Fort Peck Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri-Musselshell(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management MT)

Bureau of Land Management MT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Phillips

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 025N 024E 22 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • ALTITUDE APPROXIMATE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Iron Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Limonite Ore
Sylvanite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Alteration Products, Sericite, Kaolinite, Silica

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock
    Rock unit name Flathead Ss.;Emerson Formation;Big Horn Dolomite;Maywood And Jefferson Ls
    Rock description Flathead Ss.;Emerson Formation;Big Horn Dolomite;Maywood And Jefferson Ls
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -108.61745, 47.91021
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Upwarping Of Sediments, Intrusion By Porphyry

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shattered Zones, Minor Replacements

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE PORPHYRY IS SAID TO RANGE FROM SYENITE TO TINGUAITE IN COMPOSITION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Little Rocky Mountains

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION FIGURES COULD BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE REFERENCES CITED, ALTHOUGH IT WAS STATED THAT THIS MINED PRODUCE LESS THAN THE AUGUST MINE WHICH IS REPORTED TO HAVE PRODUCED 90,000 TONS OF GOLD ORE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • LENGTH AND DEPTH OF WORKINGS ARE APPROXIMATE DUE TO SPARSE INFORMATION

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WEED, W. H. 1896, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LITTLE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, MONTANA, THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL 61, P. 423-424

  • Deposit

    WEED, W. H. AND PIRSSON, L. V., 1896, GEOLOGY OF THE LITTLE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, VOL 4, P. 399-428

  • Deposit

    BOYNTON, C. H., 1906, THE LITTLE ROCKIES MINING DISTRICT, MONTANA, THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL 81, P. 181.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1977 Mckenzie, Craig L.; R. B. Berg U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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