Paymaster

Past Producer in Lewis and Clark county in Montana, United States with commodities Lead, 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. 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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10221912
MAS/MILS ID 0300490242
Record type Site
Current site name Paymaster

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -112.3773, 47.038 (WGS84)
Elevation 1597
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lewis and Clark(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cadotte Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dearborn River(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Choteau(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Blackfoot(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(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 Lewis and Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 015 N 006 W 20 SENWSE Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -112.3773, 47.038

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Area 2.2HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 2.2
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Heddleston District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Interest 100
    Home office Colorado
    Year 1977

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PARDEE AND SCHRADER,1933,USGS BULL.842,P.108

  • Deposit

    CROWLEY,1961,MBMG BULL.25,P.26

  • Deposit

    MILLER,R.N.1973,UNPUB.RPRNT.GEOL.HEDDLESTON CU-MO DEPOSIT,L&

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL SIZE AND LACK OF INFORMATION PRECLUDE FURTHER CONSIDER

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-NOV-1983 Montana Bureau Of Mines And Geology Hgm 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.