Mineral King - Tarbox Mine

Occurrence in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold
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. Alteration
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078296
MRDS ID W026561
Record type Site
Current site name Mineral King - Tarbox Mine
Alternate or previous names Tarbox Mine, Mineral King Mine
Related records 10148847

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.49962, 47.45126 (WGS84)
Elevation 1189
Relative position APPROX 3.2 MI NE OF SALTESE, MONT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Haugan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Lolo 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 020N 031W 35,36 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • ON MIDDLE FORK OF PACKER CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Secondary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Covellite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Ankerite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermal Bleaching Is Common Within A Belt Approx 1 Mi Wide Along The North Side Of The Osburn Fault Zone. It Has Been Used As A Guide To Ore Deposits.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.49962, 47.45126

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description A Major Structural Grain Trends Nw And Consists Of Subparallel Faults And Folds Major Fault Is The Osburn. This Fault Seems To Demarcate A Change In Folding Form With Folds To The North Showing Signs Of More Intense Structural Deformation Than Those To The South.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Osburn Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Saltese District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Sunshine Mining Co
  • Type Owner
    Owner Mineral King Mining Co., Max Swanson

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1310.64M
    Overall depth 335.28M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS WERE CAVED AND FLOODED, AS OF 1956 . 1914 PUBLICATION STATES THAT A 500 FT SHAFT WAS SUNK ON THE VEIN.

Comments on development

  • MINE ACTIVE UNTIL 1922 . SOME DEVELOPMENT WORK WAS DONE FROM LATE 1950'S UNTIL AROUND 1970 .

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WALLACE, R. E. AND HOSTERMAN, J. W., 1956 , RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGY OF WESTERN MINERAL COUNTY, MONTANA: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1027-M, P. 60 .

  • Deposit

    LAWSON, D. C., 1972 , DIRECTORY OF MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1971 : MONTANA BUR MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 86 , P. 14 .

  • Deposit

    CALKINS, F. C. AND JONES, E. L. JR., 1914 , ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE REGION AROUND MULLAN, IDAHO AND SALTESE, MONTANA: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 540 , P. 192 .

  • Deposit

    CROWLEY, F. A., 1962 , DIRECTORY OF KNOWN MINING ENTEPRISES, 1961 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 25 , P. 37 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE CONTENT OF VEIN DERIVED FROM ANALYSIS OF VEIN MATERIAL IN DUMP. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Rojstaczer, Stuart A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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