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Anaconda Quarry

Occurrence in Deer Lodge county in Montana, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium
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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. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10269386
MAS/MILS ID 0300230152
Record type Site
Current site name Anaconda Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -113.05871, 46.16989 (WGS84)
Elevation 1865
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Deer Lodge(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

West Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(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)

Federal lands

Beaverhead-Deerlodge 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 Deer Lodge

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 005 N 012 W 23 Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • 1/4 MILE EAST OF A LIMESTONE QUARRY ON THE N. SIDE OF WARM SPRINGS CREEK THE RETORT MEMBER IS EXPOSED IN A STEEP BLUFF WHERE IT LIES BETWEEN A QUARTZITE FOOTWALL AND HANGING WALL. RETORT MEMBER: .6 FT 32.8% P205; 8.7 FT THICK 24.7% P205; 10.9 FT THICK 21.3% P205. THE MEMBER IS BROKEN AND SHEARED COULD NOT BE MINED WITHOUT EXCESSIVE DILUTION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    POPOFF, C.C., 1965, AN EVALUATION OF THE WESTERN PHOSPHATE

  • Deposit

    INDUSTRY AND ITS RESOURCES, PART 2, MONTANA, USBM RI 6611

  • Deposit

    P.73

  • Deposit

    AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. PHOSPHATE REPORT,

  • Deposit

    1958, P81.

  • Deposit

    SWANSON, R.W., 1953B, STRATIGRAPHIC SECTIONS OF THE PHOSPHOR

  • Deposit

    IA FORMATION IN MONTANA, PART W2, 1949-1950: USGS CIRC. 303,

  • Deposit

    21PP.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-JAN-1998 Benjamin U.S. Bureau of Mines

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