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King Mine

Producer in Lincoln county in Montana, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106662
MRDS ID DC08343
Record type Site
Current site name King Mine
Alternate or previous names Silver Butte, Kentucky-Vermilion

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.50796, 47.9332 (WGS84)
Elevation 1353
Relative position 2 MI NW OF CANYON PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goat Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Thompson Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fisher(hydrologic unit)

Kootenai(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Kootenai 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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 025N 030W 07,08,17,18 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • 6 MI SW OF GOAT PEAK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TETRAHEDRITE OCCURS ALMOST ALWAYS WITH CHALCOPYRITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SELECTED DUMP SAMPLES ASSAYED 18.50 % PB, 0.01 OZ/TON AU AND 9.10 OZ/TON AG.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Prichard Formation
    Rock description Prichard Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.50796, 47.9332
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Snowshoe Fault And Cabinet Anticline Both Structures Trend Nw

Ore body information

  • General form POD/LENS
    Strike N 60 DEG W
    Dip 30 DEG SW
    Width 9.14M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: LOW-GRADE VEIN 10 FT. WIDE, SELECTED SAMPLES. 0.01 OZ AU, 9.10 OZ AG PER TON, 18.5% PB

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1887
Discoverer Kentucky-Vermilion Company

Mining district

District name Cabinet District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Orval Bollar And Others

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 1310.64M

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE WAS DEVELOPED BY 4 ADITS. ONLY TWO ARE CURRENTLY ACCESSIBLE. IN 1947 , THERE WAS SOME EXPLORATION BY DIAMOND DRILLING

Comments on development

  • TEN PATENTED CLAIMS, TWO PATENTED MILLSITES AND 21 UNPATENTED CLAIMS. PROPERTY WAS IDLE FOR SOME TIME PRIOR TO 1905 AND BETWEEN 1910 AND 1943 . PROPERTY WAS INACTIVE IN 1950'S. IT WAS ACTIVE AND PRODUCING IN 1971 AND 1972 ; MILL$: 0.150000 ; ECON.COM: ABOVE MILL DESTROYED BY FIRE BEFORE 1905 . IN THE EARLY 1950'S AN 80-TON FLOTATION MILL WAS CONSTRUCTED. WHEN PROPERTY WAS SOLD IN THE 1950'S THIS MILL WAS DISMANTLED. 1973 PUBLICATION STATES THAT A MILL WITH 100 TON/DAY CAPACITY IS PRESENT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: JOHNS, W. M., 1970 : MONTANA BUR MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 79 , P. 124

  • Deposit

    JOHNS, W. M., 1962 , GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS IN THE KOOTENAI-FLATHEAD AREA, NORTHWEST MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 29 , PP. 31 - 52.

  • Deposit

    LAWSON, D. C., 1972 , DIRECTORY OF MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1971 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 86 , P. 11 .

  • Deposit

    JOHNS, W. M., 1970 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN AND FLATHEAD COUNTIES, MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULL. 79 , P 122 - 124 .

  • Deposit

    MACDONALD, D. F., 1906 : ECONOMIC FEATURES OF NORTHERN IDAHO AND NORTHWESTERN MONTANA: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 285 , P. 50 .

  • Deposit

    5) LAWSON, D. C., 1973 , DIRECTORY OF MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1972 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 88 , P. 14.

  • Deposit

    6) LAWSON, D. C., DIRECTORY OF MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1977 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 107 , P. 12 .

  • Production

    JOHNS, W. M., 1970 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL 79 , P 124 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN AVERAGES 10 FT IN WIDTH. GALENA IS SCATTERED THROUGH LENSES IN WHITE QUARTZ.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1979 Rojstaczer, Stuart A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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