Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans | |
Silver Bow | county |
Montana | state |
United States | country |
North America | continent |
Land | continent |
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS | |
Butte North | quadrangle 1:24,000 scale |
Butte North | quadrangle 1:100,000 scale |
Butte | quadrangle 1:250,000 scale |
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units) | |
Upper Clark Fork | hydrologic unit |
Pend Oreille | hydrologic accounting unit |
Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane | hydrologic subregion |
Pacific Northwest | hydrologic region |
Unit | State | Lithology |
---|---|---|
Granitic rock | MT | Cretaceous |
ID | Data type | Description |
---|---|---|
Butte '83 | M-D | Butte '83 11844 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of MT |
Boulder Batholith | M-Dz | Boulder Batholith 4972 line km with spacing 3.20 km over parts of MT |
Butte | M/R-D | Butte 4406 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of MT |
Tract | Deposit Type | Mineralization age |
---|---|---|
NR10 | Porphyry Cu (North America) | Cretaceous - Eocene |
NR24 | Epithermal vein, quartz-adularia | Tertiary |
NR26 | Epithermal vein, quartz-alunite | Tertiary |
NR30 | Hot-spring Au-Ag | Tertiary |
Domain | Crust type | Region |
---|---|---|
Great Falls | Intracratonic mobile belt | Northern Rocky Mountains |
Sample ID | Date collected | Sample type |
---|---|---|
5023330 | 1976-05-06 | Wet stream sediment sample dried at less than or equal to 100øC and sieved to -100 mesh through stainless steel sieves. |
Sample ID | Date collected | Sample type |
---|---|---|
1016537 | 1976-05-06 | Stream water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter and acidified to a pH of less than or equal to 1 with reagent-grade nitric acid. |
Site name | Development | Commodities |
---|---|---|
Snowdrift Mine | Past Producer | AG MN AU SB |
Silver Lick | Past Producer | AG AU PB BE |
Gregory | Past Producer | AG PB ZN |
Springfield Mine | Past Producer | AG CU AU PB ZN AS SB |
Amy | Past Producer | MN |
Night Hawk | Past Producer | MN |
Margaret Ann | Past Producer | MN |
Millside | Prospect | MN |
Elvina | Prospect | MN |
Excelsior | Past Producer | AG AU |
Goldsmith | Prospect | MN |
Illinois | Past Producer | AG AU |
Silver Lick | Prospect | BE MN AG |
Tiger Lily | Prospect | MN |
Blackstone Vein | Prospect | MN |
Florida Vein | Prospect | MN AG |
Sooner | Prospect | MN |
Marie | Past Producer | MN PB ZN |
Glengarry | Past Producer | AU CU AG |
Sample ID | Sample source | Sample notes |
---|---|---|
EFB202 | mine/quarry/prospect pit | dump or prospect pit |
Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
---|---|---|
Northern Rocky Mountains | porphyry copper | Part of a continental margin arc that formed along the western margin of North America |
Pacific Margin | porphyry copper | Cretaceous through middle Tertiary volcanic and intrusive rocks representing a series of continental- and island-arc systems accreted and superimposed onto the paleomargin of northeast Asia. |