Mine detail: Quartz Hill Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

45.49768, -112.05253

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	THIN LENSES IN MARBLE

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Replacement
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Cherry Creek Series, Marble
Host type:	Marble
Associated rock:	Tobacco Root Quartz Monzonite, Outlier
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite
Structure:	Tobacco Root Batholith, Quartz Creek Antiform, Plunging North.
Alteration processes:	Oxidation

References

MRDS	D004320
DEP	10010549
Reference	{Deposit:: MBMG MEM 41, P. 18}{Deposit:: 1914 RECON WINCHELL, A.N., U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 574}{Deposit:: 1967 GEOLMAP MBMG, MEMOIR 41.}
Reporter	Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.)