Bannack District

Past Producer in Beaverhead county in Montana, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Bismuth
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001669
MRDS ID W006771
Record type District
Current site name Bannack District
Alternate or previous names Bannock

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.98419, 45.1582 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position BANNACK WAS THE FIRST TERRITORIAL CAPITAL OF MONTANA, CENTER OF DISTRICT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bannack(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dillon(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
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) SKARN

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.98419, 45.1582

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lithology

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Discovery year 1862
Year of first production 1862

Mining district

District name BANNACK DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WINCHELL, A.N., 1914, MINING DISTRICTS OF THE DILLON QUADRANGLE USGS BULL. 574, P. 72 - 75

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 610.

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85.

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 6.

Beyond USGS

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