Mine detail: Liverpool Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

46.48796, -111.99255

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Lead
Secondary:	Gold, Copper, Zinc
Ore:	Argentite, Galena, Pyrite
Gangue:	Ankerite, Calcite
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1893

Geology

Host type:	Quartz Monzonite
Associated rock:	Dacite Dike;Alaskite Dikes;Boulder Batholith, Butte Quartz Monzonite;Elkhorn Mountains Volcanics
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite,Dacite
Structure:	Boulder Batholith, South-Trending Syncline In Elkhorn Mountains Volcanics, East-Trending Shear Zone
Tectonic:	Cordilleran Miogeosyncline
Alteration processes:	Sericitization

References

MRDS	W014644
DEP	10105713
Reference	{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.}{Deposit:: SMEDES, H. W., 1966, GEOLOGY AND IGNEOUS PETROLOGY OF THE NORTHERN ELKHORN MOUNTAINS, JEFFERSON AND BROADWATER COUNTIES, MONT.: U.S. GEOL. SURV. PROF. PAPER 510, 116 P.}{Production:: MBMG BULL. 16}
Reporter	Krohn, Douglas H.