Mine detail: Okoreka Mine

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Location: Deer Lodge County, Montana, United States, North America
Lat / long: 46.141, -113.24758
dep_id: 10069780
mrds_id: W007462
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver
Minor mineral: Lead, Copper
Trace mineral: Antimony
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Replacement
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chrysocolla, Galena, Malachite, Tetrahedrite
gangue: Limonite, Pyromorphite, Quartz
orebody_fm: TABULAR, PARALLEL TO BEDDING
work_type: Underground
alteration: Oxidation
ore_ctrl: Quartz Gangue
Reporter: Krohn, Douglas H., Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.)
hrock_unit: Maywood Formation
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: Philipsburg Batholith, Cable Stock
tectonic: Cordilleran Miogeosyncline
References:
  • Deposit:: USGS PP 78, P. 237
  • Deposit:: 1906 GEOLMAP EMMONS AND CALKIN
  • Production:: USGS PP 78.
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