The Cooper Creek Mining Company Prospect is a lead and silver mine located in Sanders county, Montana at an elevation of 5,600 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,600 Feet (1,707 Meters)
Commodity: Lead, Silver
Lat, Long: 47.52444, -115.70306
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Cooper Creek Mining Company Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cooper Creek Mining Company Prospect
Secondary: Copper Creek Mining Co.
Secondary: Neglected Mines Co.
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Location
State: Montana
County: Sanders
District: Prospect Creek District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Cooper Creek Mining Co.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Northern Rocky Mountains
Physiographic Detail: Coeur D'Alene Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: N-S Trending Anticline
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 1929 PUBLICATION STATES HAND SAMPLE ASSAYED 41 % PB WITH "GOOD SILVER VALUES."
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Development): 1935 PUBLICATION STATES THERE WERE SIX UNPATENTED CLAIMS. MINE INACTIVE SINCE 1933 .
Comment (Location): NEAR THE HEAD OF COOPER GULCH
Comment (Workings): THREE CAVED AND ABANDONED ADITS; ONE OF WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 800 FT. LONG.
References
Reference (Analytical Data): SRC.REF: CROWLEY, F. A., 1963 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL 34 , P. 32 .
Reference (Deposit): CROWLEY, F. A., 1963 , MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS (EXCEPT FUELS) SANDERS COUNTY, MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 34 , PP. 31 - 32 .
Reference (Deposit): GILBERT, F. C., 1935 , DIRECTORY OF MONTANA MINING PROPERTIES: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 15 , P. 69 .
Principal Gold Districts of Montana
In Montana, 54 mining districts have each have produced more than 10,000 ounces of gold. The largest producers are Butte, Helena, Marysville, and Virginia City, each having produced more than one million ounces. Twenty seven other districts are each credited with between 100,000 and one million ounces of gold production. Read more: Principal Gold Districts of Montana.
