Chicken Hawk Claims

The Chicken Hawk Claims is a cobalt mine located in Deer Lodge county, Montana at an elevation of 6,929 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Chicken Hawk Claims
Secondary: Cabin Claim

Commodity

Primary: Cobalt
Tertiary: Copper

Location

State: Montana
County: Deer Lodge

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

Type: Unknown

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Montana Cobalt Silver Crest Co.
Home Office: Montana
Info Year: 1952

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
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

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Pyrite
Unknown: Calcite
Unknown: Arsenopyrite
Unknown: Chalcopyrite

Comments

Comment (Geology): THE CARBONATE GANGUE IS GENERALLY CALCITE BUT SOME SIDERITE OR ANKERITE OCCURS WITH THE CALCITE. THE PRINCIPAL SULFIDE MINERAL IS PYRITE. SOME OF THE LAYERS OF VOLCANIC ROCK CONTAIN MORE SULFIDE THAN ADJACENT LAYERS SUGGESTING THAT THE PERMEABILITY OF THE ANDESITE WAS PROBABLY THE CONTROLLING FACTOR. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE MINERALIZATION OCCURRED DURING OR SHORTLY AFTER THE EMPLACEMENT OF THE BATHOLITH AND THAT THE SPARSE DISSEMINATED SULFIDES ARE PNEUMATOLYTIC IN ORIGIN THE ASSAYS SHOW THAT COBALT OCCURS IN TRACE OR BETTER AMOUNT IN THE PYRITIZED ANDESITE. IT OCCURS AS COBALTIAN ARSENOPYRITE. COBALT ASSAYS RANGE FROM TRACE TO 1.41 PERCENT

Comment (Deposit): THIS PROPERTY CONTAINS ONLY SCATTERED DISSEMINATIONS OF SULFIDES, INCLUDING SOME ARSENOPYRITE CARRYING A LOW PERCENTAGE OF COBALT, IN INCLUSIONS OF META- ANDESITE IN THE BOULDER BATHOLITH. NO VEIN STRUCTURE OCCURS HERE.

Comment (Geology): MOST OF THE ROCK IN THE GENERAL AREA IS QUARTZ MONZONITE OF THE BOULDER BATHOLITH. SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE QUARTZ MONZONITE ARE MASSES OF METAMORPHOSED CRETACEOUS (?) VOLCANIC ROCKS AND SOME OLDER SEDIMENTARY ROCKS WHICH ARE EITHER LARGE INCLUSIONS OR ROOF PENDANTS. UNCONFORMABLY OVERLYING BOTH THE QUARTZ MONZONITE AND THE OLDER METAMORPHOSED ROCKS ARE RHYOLITE FLOWS AND SOME INTERBEDDED SANDSTONE LENSES OF PROBABLY TERTIARY AGE. MINERAL DEPOSITS OCCUR AS DISSEMINATED GRAINS AND SMALL VEINLETS IN RANDOM DIRECTIONS IN CERTAIN LAYERS OF THE OLDER VOLACNIC ROCKS. NO TRUE VEINS WERE SEEN.

References

Reference (Deposit): CRIB

Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES,WFOC,MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 0300230096.

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.