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Nye Basin Ni-Cu Lip

Occurrence in Stillwater county in Montana, United States with commodities Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, PGE, Silver, Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10093103
MRDS ID SP01080
Record type Site
Current site name Nye Basin Ni-Cu Lip

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.85301, 45.37881 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042
Relative position ABOUT 2.3 MI SOUTH OF ZOETEMAN LAKE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Stillwater(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nye(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Red Lodge(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Billings(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 Stillwater

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 005S 015E 22,27 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • IN CUSTER NATIONAL FOREST. UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Cobalt Critical Secondary
PGE Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Gold Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SEE PAGE (1979) FOR GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF BASAL SERIES MINERALIZATION. NO PUBLISHED PGE DATA AVAILABLE FOR THIS AREA

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pentlandite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Magnetite Gangue
Plagioclase Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) None Related To Ore-Forming Process

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 1
USGS model code 1
Deposit model name Stillwater Ni-Cu

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.85301, 45.37881
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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)

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Immiscible Sulfide Liquid Enriched In Ni And Cu Exsolved From Mafic Silicate Magma And Accumulated Near Lower Contact Of The Stillwater Complex. Assimilation Of Sulfur From Rocks Adjacent To The Stillwater Complex May Have Led To The Exsolution Of The Sulfide Liquid (Zientek And Ripley, 1990)

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
Significant No

Mining district

District name In Stillwater Complex

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1993 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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