Mine detail: Gold Bug Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

47.91021, -108.61745

Resource(B)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Iron, Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Gold, Limonite, Sylvanite
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Flathead Ss.;Emerson Formation;Big Horn Dolomite;Maywood And Jefferson Ls
Host type:	Clastic Sedimentary Rock
Structure:	Upwarping Of Sediments, Intrusion By Porphyry
Alteration processes:	Alteration Products, Sericite, Kaolinite, Silica

References

MRDS	W015572
DEP	10071877
Reference	{Deposit:: WEED, W. H. 1896, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LITTLE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, MONTANA, THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL 61, P. 423-424}{Deposit:: WEED, W. H. AND PIRSSON, L. V., 1896, GEOLOGY OF THE LITTLE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, VOL 4, P. 399-428}{Deposit:: BOYNTON, C. H., 1906, THE LITTLE ROCKIES MINING DISTRICT, MONTANA, THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL 81, P. 181.}
Reporter	Mckenzie, Craig L.; R. B. Berg