Baldy Mountain District

Producer in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Tungsten, Vanadium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000322
MRDS ID D008844
Record type District
Current site name Baldy Mountain District
Alternate or previous names Bald Mtn.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.04119, 45.30269 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position MAIN MINES IN SECTS. 24, 23 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978), CENTER OF DISTRICT: DILLON MINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Polaris(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salmon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaverhead(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Beaverhead

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.04119, 45.30269

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Discovery year 1869
Year of first production 1870

Mining district

District name BALDY MOUNTAIN DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 574, P. 76.

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85.

  • Deposit

    SASSMAN, O., 1941 MA THESIS, MT STATE UNIV., P. 276.

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.