Mine detail: Confederate Gulch Placers

Previously called 'Montana GulchBlack Tail Creek'

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Location

Lat / long:

46.59908, -111.41697

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Ore:	Gold

Production

Operation type:	Placer
Deposit type:	Placer Au-PGE
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1864

Geology

Host type:	Gravel
Associated rock:	Sills, Dikes, Stocks Of Quartz Diorite And Quartz Monzonite
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite,Diorite
Structure:	El Dorado - Lombard Overthrust, Boulder Batholith, Broad Northwest-Trending Anticline
Tectonic:	Cordilleran Miogeosyncline - Foreland

References

MRDS	W014693
DEP	10071355
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:: PARDEE, J. T., AND SCHRADER, F. C., 1933, METALLIFEROUS DEPOSITS OF THE GREATER HELENA MINING REGION, MONTANA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 842, 318 P.}{Deposit:: LYDEN, C.J., 1948, THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEMOIR 26, P. 14-17.}{Deposit:: KROHN, D.H., AND WEIST, M.M., 1975, PRINCIPAL INFORMATION ON MONTANA MINES: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY SPECIAL PUBLICATION 75, P.23.}
Reporter	Krohn, Douglas H.