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Martin Mine

Past Producer in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101566
MRDS ID D004829
Record type Site
Current site name Martin Mine
Related records 10269779

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.25729, 45.55878 (WGS84)
Elevation 2484
Relative position 10 AIR MILES SE OF WISDOM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stewart Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wisdom(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Hole(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(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 Beaverhead

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 003S 013W 19 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • 1 MILE SOUTH OF ODELL MTN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Lcret-Tert Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Lcret-Tert Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.25729, 45.55878
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Pioneer Batholith

Ore body information

  • Strike N 49 E
    Dip 90
    Width 0.46M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1869
Discoverer Ed Brown

Mining district

District name Wisdom Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Fischer, Al
    Home office Butte, Mt.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 91.44M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SHAFT AND TWO ADITS, ALL CAVED AT PORTALS

Comments on development

  • UNPATENTED PROPERTY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85, P. 144

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    M.B.M.G. BULL. 85

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-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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