Mine detail: Ruby Gulch Group

Previously called 'RubyMintBadgerAlabamaIndependent'

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Location: Phillips County, Montana, United States, North America
Lat / long: 47.93132, -108.55634
dep_id: 10071371
mrds_id: W014713
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Trace mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Gold, Pyrite
gangue: Fluorite, Quartz, Sericite
orebody_fm: SHOOTS
work_type: Surface/Underground
alteration: Sericitization
conc_proc: Ores Believed To Be Implaced By Hydrothermal Ascending Solutions
ore_ctrl: Ore Confined To Narrow Crushed Zones Between Faults
Reporter: Mlynarczyk, Meg S.
hrock_unit: Deadwood Formation, Limestone & Shales;Gneisses And Schists
hrock_type: Syenite
arock_unit: Syenite Porphyry Laccolith
arock_type: Syenite
Structure: Little Rocky Mts. - Domal Uplift Formed By Underlying Intrusions Of Tert. Syenite Porphyry, A Group Of High Angle Gravity Faults Radiate From Dom* Center In The Porphyry
tectonic: Rocky Mountain Foreland
Year first produced: 1903
disc_yr: 1897
References:
  • Deposit:: DYSON, J. L., 1953, RUBY GULCH GOLD MINING DISTRICT: IN BILLINGS GEOL. SOC. 4TH ANN. FIELD CONF., SEPT. 1953, LITTLE ROCKY MTS. MT, AND S.W. SASKATCHEWAN.
  • Deposit:: EMMONS, W. H., 1908, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE LITTLE ROCKY MTNS, MONTANA, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 340.
  • Production:: HUBBARD ET AL, 1964, U.S.B.M. INF. CIRC. 8229., MBMG MEM. 31
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