The data below represent everything available in the MBMG Abandoned and Inactive Mines (AIM) database.

Sites Table
AIM Id Name Alternate Name District County
JF002661 BLUEBELL - MARSH MARSH HOMESTAKE JEFFERSON
MRDS AMLI MILS Latitude Longitude Datum
45.9658 -112.3189
Township Range Section QSection UTM Northing UTM Easting UTM Zone UTM Datum
03N 06W 35 CADC
Average Elevation Elev Units Land Owner 250K Quad 100K Quad 24K Quad
F DILLON BUTTE SOUTH DELMOE LAKE
Property Type Update Date Who Updated
LODE 4/9/1995 JDL
Agency Info Table
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Agency: NF
Region District: R1
Ranger District: JEFFERSON
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Watershed Code: 10020005
Forest or Resource Area: DEERLODGE
Owner: M
Impact:
Report: Bluebell-Marsh: Roby and others (1960) described this property in some detail. Workings consist of a shaft and two adits with 700 feet of drifts (the shaft and one adit are caved). A 3-4 foot thick N80W vertical vein of quartz, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and galena was mined. There is also some disseminated pyrite and galena disseminated in the quartz monzonite wallrock. Total production between 1909 and 1949 was 98 tons of ore, 84 oz of gold, 402 oz of silver, 1228 lbs of copper, 19285 lbs of lead, and 665 lbs of zinc. Today, a small discharge issues from the caved, lower adit on private land, and some mill tailings are present along the stream on Deerlodge NF land.
Screening Criteria Table
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Mill Tailings: N
Adit Discharge: N
Metal Leaching: N
Water Erosion: N
Residence: N
Hazardous Materials: N
Open Adit: N
Visit: Y
Comments: BUCHHOLZ; 7/92
Rank Table
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Investigator: E. BUCHHOLZ
Date: 7/1/1992
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