Mine detail: Hope Group

Previously called 'FieldPrinceImperialLittle EmmaComancheCuno ShaftJubileeShapleigh TunnelHope TailingsShapleigh MinePotosiPorterTake All'

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Location

Lat / long:

46.34017, -113.27536

Resource(B)

Primary:	Silver, Copper, Lead
Secondary:	Gold, Manganese
Tertiary:	Barium-Barite, Antimony, Arsenic, Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Argentite, Cerargyrite, Chalcocite, Galena, Gold, Malachite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Fluorite, Iron, Pyrite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1865

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Polymetallic Replacement
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1866

Geology

Host rock:	Jefferson Limestone
Host type:	Limestone
Structure:	Philipsburg Batholith, Philipsburg Anticline, Philipsburg Overthrust
Tectonic:	Cordilleran Miogeosyncline
Alteration processes:	Limestone Marmerized And Some Tremolite Developed.

References

MRDS	W014670
DEP	10071337
Reference	{Deposit:: USBM REP INVES 4399, 9 P.}{Deposit:: USGS PP 78, P. 213-18, PL. 1, 2.}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 955-E, P. 220-21.}{Deposit:: MBMG BULL 115, P. 5.}{Deposit:: USGS BULL 1237, P. 30-1, PLATES}
Reporter	Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.), Krohn, Douglas H.