Silver Bow Plant

Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodity Phosphorus-Phosphates
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10245845
MAS/MILS ID 0300939001
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Bow Plant

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -112.67869, 45.9907 (WGS84)
Elevation 1634
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buxton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(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 009 W 23 SWSESE Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -112.67869, 45.9907

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Stauffer Chamical Co., Industrial Chemical Division
    ID 2400151
    Home office Montana
    Year 1978

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MSHA MINE FILE REFERENCE, NOVEMBER, 1978.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 30-MAR-93 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.

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusAbandoned since 05/21/1982
MSHA mine ID2400151
Mine name (MSHA)Silver Bow Plant
Current operatorRhone-Poulenc Basic Chemicals Company
Current controller (parent)Rhone-Poulenc S A
Mine typeFacility (Metal / non-metal)

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