Whip-Poor-Will Mine

Past Producer in Madison county in Montana, United States with commodity 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102049
MRDS ID DC11825
Record type Site
Current site name Whip-Poor-Will Mine
Alternate or previous names Whippoorwill Mine
Related records 10245853

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.93697, 45.66157 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position APROX 3 MILES WEST OF PONY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madison(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pony(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jefferson(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management MT)

Bureau of Land Management MT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Madison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 002S 003W 14 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION APROX.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Quartz Monzonite-Tobacco Root Batholith
    Rock description Quartz Monzonite-Tobacco Root Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Pre-Bent Pony-Cherry Creek Gneiss Series
    Rock description Pre-Bent Pony-Cherry Creek Gneiss Series

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.93697, 45.66157

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Deposits In Gneiss Near Tobacco Root Batholith Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pony (Mineral Hill) District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Parker And Flint
    Home office Pony
    First year 1950

Comments on the workings information

  • 650 FT TUNNEL, RAISES, STOPES

Comments on development

  • GROUP CONSISTING OF LOS ANGELES, & SAN DIEGO CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TRAVERMAN, REYNER, 1950, DIRECTORY OF MONTANA MINING PROPERTIES, MONT. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., MEM 31, P. 69.

  • Deposit

    BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF MINES OF THE STATE OF MONTANA, 1911-1912, P. 92.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 04-03-1961

  • Deposit

    1912 COMPILE INSP. OF MINES, 1911-1912

  • Deposit

    1950 COMPILE MBMG MEM 31

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1980 Doyle, Brien (Wells, John) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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