The Red Mountain Tunnel is a lead and silver mine located in Lewis and Clark county, Montana.
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Mine Info
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Red Mountain Tunnel MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Red Mountain Tunnel
Secondary: Montana Lead Crosscut Tunnel No. 1.
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Copper
Tertiary: Arsenic
Location
State: Montana
County: Lewis and Clark
District: Rimini 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
Type: Unknown
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
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
Type: L
Description: Red Mountain Fault
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Sericitization
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: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Gold
Ore: Sphalerite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Location): 2.7 KM NW OF RED MOUNTAIN. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1950)
Comment (Production): FEW HUNDRED TONS OF ORE.
Comment (Deposit): 40 OR MORE VEINS WERE FOUND ON THE E SIDE OF THE FAULT. THE FREE SPEECH, EUREKA, AND ALTA WERE THE ONLY ONES THAT WERE DEVELOPED. 24303 FT FROM PORTAL PASS THROUGH THE RED MTN FAULT, A VERTICAL FISSURE CONTAINING CLAY GOUGE THAT HAS FRAGMENTS OF QUARTZ MONZONITE AND APLITE.
Comment (Workings): A LONG CROSSCUT WHICH CUT THE RED MOUNTAIN FAULT MOST OF IT IS INACCESSIBLE
References
Reference (Production): USGS PP 428, P. 56.
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 842, P. 249-54.
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 842, P. 249, PL. 41
Reference (Deposit): USGS PP 428, PL. 1, P. 33, 54, 56.
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.
