Mine detail: Big Ben

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Location: Cascade County, Montana, United States, North America
Lat / long: 46.96658, -110.71751
dep_id: 10008404
mrds_id: D000518
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Molybdenum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Galena, Molybdenite, Molybdite, Sphalerite
orebody_fm: ELLIPSOIDAL
alteration: Kaolinization
Reporter: King, Robert U., Mosier, Dan
hrock_type: Gneiss
arock_unit: Pinto Diorite;Carpenter Creek Granite Porphyry;Snow Creek Quartz Porphyry
arock_type: Diorite
disc_yr: 1922
References:
  • Deposit:: SCHAFER, P., 1935, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE NEIHART MINING DIST. MONTANA: MONTANA BUR. OF MINING & GEOL. MEMO 13
  • Deposit:: HORTON, F., 1916, MOLYBDENUM ITS ORE AND THEIR CONCENTRATION: U.S.B.M. BULL. 111
  • Deposit:: HERDLICK, J.A., 1949, R.I 4406
  • Deposit:: 1893 RECON W.H. WEED
  • Deposit:: 1938 DIREXPL FEDERAL MINING & SMELTING CO
  • Deposit:: 1943 GEOLMAP S. CREASEY & E. SCHOLZ
  • Deposit:: 1962 DIREXPL AMAX
  • Reserve-Resource:: ITEM 1: R.U. KING ITEM 2: MONT. B.M.&G. BULL. 111
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