Zosell District

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001631
MRDS ID W002870
Record type District
Current site name Zosell District
Alternate or previous names Emery District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.59259, 46.3749 (WGS84)
Relative position 3 TO 4 SQUARE MILES

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Powell(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sugarloaf Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(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 Powell

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Lead Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) CHLORITIZATION
  • (Local) CARBONATIZATION
  • (Local) SERICITIZATION

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.59259, 46.3749

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1872
Discoverer John Renault

Mining district

District name ZOSELL DISTRICT
District name EMERY DISTRICT

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner JOSEPH WHITWORTH
    Year 1933

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PARDEE, J. T. AND F. C. SCHRADER, 1933; METALLIFEROUS DEPOSITS OF THE GREATER HELENA MINING REGION, USGS BULL. 842. P. 270-283.

Beyond USGS

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