The King Solomon Ridge Group is a uranium mine located in Jefferson county, Montana.
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Mine Info
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King Solomon Ridge Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: King Solomon Ridge Group
Secondary: Hinman Mine
Secondary: Fourty-Niner Mine
Secondary: President Group
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Lead
Location
State: Montana
County: Jefferson
District: Clancy-Lump Gulch District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Year: 1958
Time Period: 1952-1958
Material type: ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^0.28-0.50% U3o8 From Presidents Group.
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1949
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Northern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Boulder Batholith
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pitchblende
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Location): ABOUT 1 MI E OF KING SOLOMAN MINE.
Comment (Deposit): CHALCEDONY VEINS FOUND TO BE RADIOACTIVE AT THE SURFACE AND CONTAINS SECONDARY URANIUM MINERALS. SOME ZONES ARE UP TO 40 FT WIDE AT THE SURFACE.
Comment (Workings): A GROUP OF ADITS. 49ER HAS A 500 FT CROSSCUT (1951).
Comment (Deposit): OPEN PIT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Production): MBMG BULL 16, P. 43
Reference (Deposit): USGS PP 428, P. 63, 67.
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 988-F.
Reference (Deposit): MBMG BULL 16, P. 43.
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.
