Kelley Mine, Butte, Butte District (Summit Valley District), Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 46° 0' North , 112° 30' West |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 46.00000,-112.50000 |
| GeoHash: | G#: c2pvxypcr |
| Other regions containing this locality: | Rocky Mountains, North America |
| Locality type: | Mine |
| Köppen climate type: | BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate |
Ref: The Mineralogy of the Butte District, Guilbert & Zeihen 1964
Ref: Guidebook for the Butte Field Meeting of the Society Of Economic Geologists, 1973
Mineral List
10 valid minerals.
Regional Geology
This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.
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| Holocene - Calabrian 0 - 1.806 Ma ID: 2864433 | Gravel Age: Pleistocene (0 - 1.806 Ma) Description: Variable deposits that range from pebble to boulder size and include sand, silt, and clay. Dominantly alluvial terrace, abandoned channel and floodplain, remnant alluvial fan, and local glacial outwash. Lithology: Major:{gravel}, Minor:{sand,silt,clay} Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133] |
| Holocene - Pleistocene 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 2073258 | Surficial deposits Age: Pleistocene (0 - 2.588 Ma) Description: alluvium, fan gravel, terrace gravel, landslide deposits, travertine, till, glacial lake deposits, outwash deposits Reference: Zientek, M.L., P.D. Derkey, R.J. Miller, J.D. Causet et al. Spatial Databases for the Geology of the Northern Rocky Mountains - Idaho, Montana, and Washington. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1235 Version 1.0. [25] |
| Cretaceous 66 - 145 Ma ID: 3187684 | Mesozoic intrusive rocks Age: Cretaceous (66 - 145 Ma) Lithology: Intrusive igneous rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
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Kelley Mine, Butte, Butte District, Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA