The Black Butte Mine is a lead mine located in Meagher county, Montana at an elevation of 6,119 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,119 Feet (1,865 Meters)
Commodity: Lead
Lat, Long: 46.7592, -110.95890
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Black Butte Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Black Butte Mine
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Location
State: Montana
County: Meagher
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
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Workings
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Ownership
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Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Northern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
Comment (Location): PROPERTY COULD NOT BE LOCATED ON THE STRAWBERRY BUTTE 7.5 MIN TOPO SHEET (1995). THE MILS LAT/LONG CORRESPONDS TO THE UPPER HOLDER LAKE 7.5 MIN TOPO SHEET, NO PROPERTIES COULD BE FOUND ON THAT SHEET EITHER. THIS PROPERTY IS EITHER MISS-LOCATED OR COMPLETELY INCORRECT. SEE MAS SEQ 0300590052 FOR CORRECT(?) BLACK BUTTE PROPERTY FILE NO PROPERTIES COULD BE FOUND ON THE BLACK BUTTE 7.5 MIN TOPO EITHER. ALSO THE MILS LAT/LONG; TOPO SHEET OR COUNTY COULD ALSO BE INCORRECT.
Comment (Location): County name is Meagher. However, original lat/long plots in Lewis and Clark county. Original coordinates were: lat/long NAD27 46-45-33N 111-57-32W (46.7592 -111.9589); UTM N5178629 E426770 Z12N; PLSS line# 1: Meridian- Montana Principal, TWNSHP 012 N, RNG 006 E, Sect 34, Sect_fract C. The PLSS coordinates translate to 46.759 -110.96, one degree east of the original lat/long, 2.5 km SE of Black Butte mountain, in Meagher county. The topo sheet shows numerous prospect symbols but no mine symbols in the vicinity. The reporter likely mistyped the longitude. So 1 degree was subtracted from the original longitude and the datum was changed to WGS84 to shift the location slightly closer to the prospect symbols.
Comment (Reference): The short citation in the reference field, MBM AND G BULL 100,1976 P25, is probably: 1976 "Directory of Mining Enterprises for 1975". Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Bulletin 100. Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, Butte.
References
Reference (Deposit): MSHA RPT DATED DEC 1981
Reference (Deposit): MBM AND G BULL 100,1976 P25
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.
