Mine detail: Pay Rock Mine

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Location: Sanders County, Montana, United States, North America
Lat / long: 47.26571, -114.40597
dep_id: 10010422
mrds_id: D004065
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Silver, Gold
Minor mineral: Platinum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
orebody_fm: VEINS
work_type: Underground
conc_proc: Hydrothermal Processes Remobilizing And Concentrating Magmatic Sulfide Mineralization
ore_ctrl: Contact Of Dikes With Country Rock
Reporter: Chesson, Sharon A., Peterson, Jocelyn A.
hrock_unit: Belt Supergroup
hrock_type: Quartzite,Argillite
arock_unit: Correlative Of Purcell Sills
arock_type: Diorite
tectonic: Belt Basin In Prot, Now Part Of Rocky Mountains
References:
  • Deposit:: U.S. FOREST SERVICE FILES, MISSOULA, MT.
  • Deposit:: HARRISON, J.E., LEACH, D.L., KLEINKOPF, M.D., AND LONG, C.L., 1986, RESOURCE APPRAISAL MAP FOR PORPHYRY MONYBDENUM-TUNGSTEN, PLATINUM-GROUP METALS, AND EPITHERMAL SILVER DEPOSITS IN THE WALLACE 1 X 2 DEGREE QUADRANGLE, MONTANA AND IDAHO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISCELLANEOUS GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS MAP I-1509-H, SCALE 1:250,000.
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