| Lat / long: | 45.32379, -112.00253 |
| Primary: | Gold, Garnet |
| Ore: | Gold, Almandine |
| Discovery year: | 1863 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Deposit type: | Placer Au-PGE |
| Production size: | Yes |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| First production started: | 1863 |
| Last production ended: | 1925 |
| Host type: | Alluvium |
| Associated rock: | Aplite And Andesite Porphyry Intrusions;Tobacco Root Batholith; |
| Associated type: | Andesite |
| Structure: | Tobacco Root Batholith, Laramide Folds And Faults |
| Tectonic: | Cordilleran Miogeosyncline |
| MRDS | W014672 |
| DEP | 10105717 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, 1994, ... AS COMINCO EVALUATES ALDER GARNET, IN WORLD OF MINERALS: NO. 324, P. 28.}{Deposit:: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, 1995, COMINCO TO START ALDER GARNET OPERATION, IN WORLD OF MINERALS: NO. 329, P. 15.}{Deposit:: LYDEN, C.J., 1948, THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEMOIR 26, P. 80-83}{Deposit:: WINCHELL, A.N., 1914, MINING DISTRICTS OF THE DILLON QUADRANGLE, MONTANA AND ADJACENT AREAS: U.S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 574, P. 57}{Reserve-Resource:: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, 1994.} |
| Reporter | Krohn, Douglas H., Orris, Greta J. |