Mine detail: Clipper Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

45.66268, -111.95808

Resource(M)

Primary:

Gold

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Pony Formation, Gneiss
Host type:	Gneiss
Associated rock:	Tobacco Root Batholith Quartz Monzonite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite
Structure:	Located Between Mammoth And Pony Faults Both Of Which Trend Nw
Alteration processes:	Sericitization And Silicification

References

MRDS	W013404
DEP	10070461
Reference	{Deposit:: LORAIN, 1937, GOLD LODE MINING - TOBACCO ROOT MTS., U. S. BUREAU MINES INF. CIRC 6972.}{Deposit:: MBMG MEM 9, P. 26.}{Deposit:: MBMG MEM 36.}{Deposit:: VITALIAND, ET AL, 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF SOUTHERN TOBACCO ROOT MTNS, MADISON CO., MONT., GEO. SOC. OF AMER., MC-31.}{Deposit:: 1933 RECON MBMG MEM 9}{Deposit:: 1957 GEOLMAP MBMG MEM 36}{Deposit:: 1979 GEOLMAP G.S.A. MC-31}{Production:: LORAIN, 1937, U. S. B. M. INF. CIRC. 6972}
Reporter	Mlynarczyk, Meg S.; Krohn, D., Doyle, Brien (Wells, John)