Name
Montana Silver Lead
Aliases
Clarkes Lode
May Queen Shaft
Montana Western Extended
May Queen Shaft
Montana Western Extended
Parent Deposit
Zeehan Mineral Field
Type
Mine or Prospect
Operational Status
Abandoned
Status Date
Unknown
Main Commodity Type
Metals
Description
6 parallel lodes at surface, open pit, shaft and a number of adits and drives
Locality
Parting Creek Lake, NW of Zeehan
Deposit Size
Medium: 10 000 t - 1 000 000 t
Host Rock Ages
Neoproterozoic
Mineralisation Ages
Neoproterozoic
Uses
Form
Replacement
Vein (single, sheet, saddle)
Vein (single, sheet, saddle)
Rock Type
quartzite
sandstone
shale
siltstone
slate
sandstone
shale
siltstone
slate
Commodities
Lead
Silver
Zinc
Silver
Zinc
Gangue
Arsenopyrite
Calcite
Pyrite
Quartz
Siderite
Calcite
Pyrite
Quartz
Siderite
Exploration
Geochemical surveys
Geological mapping
Geophysical surveys
Prospecting
Geological mapping
Geophysical surveys
Prospecting
Structures
| Dip | Strike | Comments |
| - | 20 | - |
Resources
| Date | Total Production | Pre-Mining | |
| 01/01/1962 | - | - | More Details |
References
Resource Details
| Resource/Reserve Info Date | 01/01/1962 |
| Total Production | |
| Pre-Mining |
| Type | From Date | To/At Date | Tons | LEAD tons | SILVER Ounces (produced) |
| Production | 01/01/1899 | 31/12/1902 | 27.96 | 2563.0 | |
| Production | 01/01/1937 | 01/03/1958 | 2276.0 | 276785.0 | |
| Total Production | 01/01/1899 | 01/03/1958 | 2304.0 | 279348.0 |