Mine detail: Bilk Gulch Placer

Previously called 'Caribou City'

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Location

Lat / long: 43.10432, -111.2725

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Platinum
Ore: Gold, Platinum
Orebody form: STREAM SEDIMENT DEPOSITS
Discovery year: 1870

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Stream Placer
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Alluvium-Gravel;Wayan Formation-Sandstone, Shale, Limestone
Host type:Gravel
Associated type:Syenite,Quartz Monzonite,Monzonite,Granite
Tectonic:Rocky Mountains

References

MRDSW019287
DEP10073285
Reference{Deposit:: SAVAGE, C.N., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BONNEVILLE COUNTY: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY COUNTY REPORT 5, P. 27, 37-39.}{Deposit:: IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL SERVICES, 1975, FIRST ANNUAL REPORT ADDENDUM, 95 P.}{Deposit:: ROSS, C.P., 1941, THE METAL AND COAL MINING DISTRICTS OF IDAHO, WITH NOTES ON THE NONMETALLIC MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE STATE: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 57, P. 26.}
ReporterSiefken, Robert R. (Miller, Pat), Peterson, Jocelyn A.