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Viking Mine

Past Producer in Madison county in Montana, United States with commodities 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. 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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102050
MRDS ID DC11831
Record type Site
Current site name Viking Mine
Related records 10246147

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.97808, 45.64629 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Relative position 4.5 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

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 Madison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 002S 003W 21 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • ADJACENT TO ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Pre-Belt Pony-Cherry Creek Gneiss Series
    Rock description Pre-Belt Pony-Cherry Creek Gneiss Series
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.97808, 45.64629
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Veins Occur In Aplite Dike In Gneiss With Tobacco Root Batholith Contact Nearby.

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: VEINS 1 IN. TO 5 FT. WIDE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pony

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. Templeton
    Home office Butte, Mt.
    First year 1935

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE CUTS, ADITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GILBERT, 1935, DIRECTORY OF MONTANA MINING PROPERTIES, MONT BUR OF MINES AND GEOL., MEM 15, P. 54.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 05-24-1963

  • Deposit

    1935 COMPILE MBMG MEM 1

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS 1 INCH TO 5 FT WIDE.

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

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