Two Percent

Past Producer in Granite county in Montana, United States with commodities Manganese, 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. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10245984
MRDS ID W014700
MAS/MILS ID 0300390008
Record type Site
Current site name Two Percent
Related records 10071360

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -113.27262, 46.33879 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Philipsburg(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Flint-Rock(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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 007 N 013 W 19 SWSWSE Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -113.27262, 46.33879

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike E00W
    Dip 80S
    Thickness 1M
    Length 152M
    Width 152M
    Depth to top 0M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 FISSURE VEIN
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 REPLACEMENT
    Shape of Orebody #2 IRREGULAR
    Primary mode of Origin UNKNOWN
    Secondary mode of Origin OXIDATION
    Primary Ore Control FRACTURING
    Secondary Ore Control LITHOLOGY
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. UNKNOWN
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 UNKNOWN
    Strike And Dip E00W:80S
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 3
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 820825

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1866
Year of first production 1920

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Interest 46
    Home office New York
    Year 1976

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRINZ,1967,USGS BULL 1237 P16,26,60,63,PL1

  • Deposit

    EMMONS AND CALKINS,1913,USGS PP78 P219

  • Deposit

    GIDEL,1955,UNPUB MEMO 3P

  • Deposit

    GIDEL,1922,UNPUB RPT 13P

  • Deposit

    KIRKEMO,1944,UNPUB RPT 6P W/MAPS (SEE MPF FILE)

  • Deposit

    MBM G MEM 31, 1949 P.32

  • Deposit

    MBM G MEM 20, 1940 P.32-33

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-FEB-84 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.