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Sunshine Claim

Past Producer in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Lead, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101563
MRDS ID D004815
Record type Site
Current site name Sunshine Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.3409, 45.00128 (WGS84)
Elevation 2103
Relative position 25 MILES SO. OF JACKSON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Coyote Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salmon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Red Rock(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Beaverhead

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 009S;010S 014W;014W 32,05 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • CLAIM COVERS A NW-SE DIAGONAL AREA IN THE NE 1/4, SECTION 5 AND SE 1/4, SECT. 32

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Gneiss
    Rock description Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoarchean
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoarchean

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.3409, 45.00128
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Strike N 65 W
    Dip 72 SW
    Width 0.91M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1914

Mining district

District name Monument (Bloody Dick, Beaverhead) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. A. Wellborn
    Home office Grant

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 12.19M
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • OLD WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 50-FT. SHAFT IN LINE WITH THE VEIN (BUT CONTAINING NO VEIN MINERALS) AND A 40-FT. ADIT EXPOSING THE VEIN.

Comments on development

  • ONE PATENTED CLAIM

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85, P. 33

  • Deposit

    1972 COMPILE M.B.M.G. BULL. 8

  • Production

    M.B.M.G. BULL. 85

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN SEEMS TO BE A SHORT LENS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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