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Boulder River Nickel Prospect

Prospect in Sweet Grass county in Montana, United States with commodities Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10173430
MRDS ID M060099
MAS/MILS ID 0300970027
Record type Site
Current site name Boulder River Nickel Prospect
Alternate or previous names Riverside
Related records 10042345

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -110.203, 45.47182 (WGS84)
Elevation 1631
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sweet Grass(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chrome Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Gardiner(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bozeman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Yellowstone(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Custer Gallatin 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 Sweet Grass

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 004 S 012 E 23 C E2 Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Cobalt Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Nickel Critical Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -110.203, 45.47182
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 7546, 1950, P. 55.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ALSO IN SEC 24 A NUMBER OF SHALLOW PITS AND TWO SHORT ADITS LESS THAN 100 FEET LONG PARTLY EXPLORE A ZONE IN THE BASAL HORIZON OF THE STILLWATER COMPLEX. THE ZONE,12 TO 30 FEET WIDE, CONTAINS PYRITE, PYRRHOTITE, CHALCOPYRITE AND PROBABLY SMALL AMOUNTS OF PENTLANDIITE ENCLOSED IN HORNFELS. A SAMPLE OF MASSIVE SULFIDES SELECTED FROM ONE OF THE ADIT DUMPS ASSAYED AS FOLLOWS: GOLD TRACE SILVER TRACE IRON 23.1 PERCENT NICKEL 0.3 PERCENT COPPER 0.3 PERCENT COBALT 0.06 PERCENT PRIOR TO 1950 NO ORES HAD BEEN PRODUCED, ALTHOUGH THE PROPERTY HAS BEEN SPORADICALLY PROSPECTED FOR MANY YEAR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-1994 Winters, Dick U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

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