Mine detail: Southern Cross Mine

Previously called 'Red NellCableGeorge Town'

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Location: Deer Lodge County, Montana, United States, North America
Lat / long: 46.20917, -113.23306
dep_id: 10069779
mrds_id: W007461
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Gold
Minor mineral: Copper
Trace mineral: Arsenic, Bismuth
Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: Polymetallic veins
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Malachite, Tennantite, Gold, Azurite
gangue: Calcite, Hematite, Limonite, Magnetite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR AND COMPLEX, Tabular
work_type: Underground
model: 85: Polymetallic veins
alteration: Ferruginous And Oxidized
Reporter: Mlynarczyk, Meg S., Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.)
hrock_unit: Hasmark Formation
hrock_type: Limestone
Structure: Philipsburg Batholith, Cable Stock
tectonic: Cordilleran Miogeosyncline
Year first produced: 1872
yr_lst_prd: 1942
disc_yr: 1866
References:
  • Deposit:: MBMG BULL 84, P. 34, 35, 37.
  • Deposit:: USGS PP 74, P. 231-34.
  • Deposit:: MBMG MEM 31, P. 21.
  • Deposit:: USGS-USBM MINERAL YEARBOOKS 1905-1942.
  • Deposit:: 1906 GEOLMAP EMMONS AND CALKINS
  • Deposit:: GEOLMAP MBMG EARLL
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