Mountain Con Mine

Past Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Arsenic
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101995
MRDS ID DC10855
Record type Site
Current site name Mountain Con Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.53367, 46.02323 (WGS84)
Relative position 1.0 KM W OF MEADERVILLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Butte North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 003N 008W 12 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • 2.1 KM ENE OF BIG BUTTE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Covellite Ore
Enargite Ore
Gold Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Butte Quartz Monzonite (Boulder Batholith)
    Rock description Butte Quartz Monzonite (Boulder Batholith)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.53367, 46.02323

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Boulder Batholith

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Butte District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner The Anaconda Co.
    Home office Hennessy Bldg., Butte, Mt.

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCED IN THE EARLY 1900'S. IN 1956 AND 1957 WAS IN THE KELLY BLOCK CAVING PROJECT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 74, P. 167-69

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 33, P. 31

  • Deposit

    USGS-USBM MINERAL YEARBOOKS, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1967, 1968.

  • Production

    USGS-USBM MINERAL YEARBOOKS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 MAIN VEINS CALLED N AND S LEDGES. THE TUNNEL LEVELAND THE 100, 200, 300, AND 400 FT LEVELS WERE DRIVEN ON LARGE ORE BODIES WHICH STRIKE E-W. BELOW THE 400 FT LEVEL THE ORE SEEMS TO PITCH SE. AT THE 900 FT LEVEL THE N AND S LEDGES COME TOGETHER. THE N LEDGE IS NEARLY VERTICAL FROM THE 130O TO THE 2000 FT LEVELS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1981 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references