Mine detail: Prickly Pear and Clancy Placers

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

46.46796, -111.98421

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Ore:	Gold, Silver
Discovery year:	1865

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Placer
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1865

Geology

Host type:	Gravel
Associated rock:	Boulder Batholith, Butte Quartz Monzonite;Elkhorn Mountains Volcanics, Tuff, Andesite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite,Tuff,Andesite
Structure:	Boulder Batholith
Tectonic:	Cordilleran Miogeosyncline

References

MRDS	W014677
DEP	10071343
Reference	{Deposit:: KOSCHMANN, A. H., AND BERGENDAHL, M. H., 1968, PRINCIPAL GOLD-PRODUCING DISTRICTS OF THE UNITED STATES: U.S. GEOL. SURV. PROF. PAPER 610, 283 P.}{Deposit:: ROBY, R. N., ACKERMAN, W. C., FULKERSON, F. B., AND CROWLEY, F. A., 1960, MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS, JEFFERSON COUNTY, MONT.: MONT. BUREAU OF MINES GEOL. BULL. 16, 122 P.}{Production:: USGS PROF. PAPER 610, MBMG BULL. 16}
Reporter	Krohn, Douglas H.