Travona

Past Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodities Aluminum, Iron, Lead, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Silver, Zinc
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10124295
MAS/MILS ID 0300930103
Record type Site
Current site name Travona

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -112.54589, 46.0049 (WGS84)
Elevation 1692
Location accuracy 100(meters)

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 003 N 008 W 13 SESWSW Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Tertiary
Silica Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Rhodochrosite Unknown
Sphalerite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -112.54589, 46.0049

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Area 1HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 1
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1917
Year of first production 1917

Mining district

District name Butte District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Fee Ownership
Type of mineral rights Patented
Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Interest 100
    Home office Montana
    Year 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    INTERNATIONAL GEOL. CONGRESS XVI SESSION GUIDEBOOK 23 PERRY

  • Deposit

    CHARLES MEYER ORE DEPOSITS OF THE U.S. 1937-1967 PP 13741THR

  • Deposit

    J.T. PARDEE U.S.G.S. BULL. 690E MANGANESE AT BUTTE MONTANA

  • Deposit

    W.H. WEED USGS FOLIO 38 BUTTE SPECIAL FOLIO 1897

  • Deposit

    W.H.WEED GEOL. AND ORE DEPOSITS BUTTE DIST. USGS PROF PAPER

  • Deposit

    L.H.HART 16 TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLCONG. 1935 COPPER RES OF TH

  • Deposit

    G.V.SULLIVAN USBM R.I.5728

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL. 427 P.135

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL. 725C

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-1984 Wetzel, Nicholas U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

External references