Scratchgravel District

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000361
MRDS ID D009570
Record type District
Current site name Scratchgravel District
Alternate or previous names Scratchgravel Hills, Grass Valley

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.08418, 46.6666 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position INCLUDES SCRATCHGRAVEL HILLS AND THE VALLEYS OF THEM. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1950)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lewis and Clark(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Scratchgravel Hills(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Elliston(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Missouri(hydrologic unit)

Upper Missouri(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri-Marias(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management MT)

Bureau of Land Management MT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Lewis and Clark

Commodities

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.08418, 46.6666

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description SCRATCHGRAVEL QUARTZ MONZONITE STOCK
Type of structure Regional
Structure description BOULDER BATHOLITH

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1864

Mining district

District name SCRATCHGRAVEL DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Beyond USGS

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