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Blackbird

Past Producer in Cascade county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
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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. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10196782
MAS/MILS ID 0300130037
Record type Site
Current site name Blackbird

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -110.72254, 46.94021 (WGS84)
Elevation 2103
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Cascade(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Neihart(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

White Sulphur Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

White Sulphur Springs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Belt(hydrologic unit)

Upper Missouri(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri-Marias(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Helena-Lewis and Clark 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 Cascade

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 014 N 008 E 28 SWSWSW Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -110.72254, 46.94021
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Area 0.6HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) .6
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1890

Mining district

District name Neihart Mining District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Elizabeth M. Dean And Larissa P. Stewart
    Interest 100
    Home office Michigan

Comments on the production information

  • NET SMELTER RETURNS TO 1935 ARE REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN $33,960.40 PRODUCTION FROM 1915 TO 1921, INCLUSIVE, WAS 539 TONS OF ORE, FROM WHICH 66.01 OUNCES GOLD, 46,760 OUNCES SILVER AND 71,489 POUNDS LEAD WERE RECOVERED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROBERTSON, 1951, USBM I.C. 7589, P. 77, 35-36.

  • Deposit

    USBM IC 7589 P. 35-36, 1951.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-84 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) 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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