Mine detail: Gish Mine

Previously called 'Gish ProspectsBoulder River Chromite DepositBonanza GroupDark GroupLost ShaftBlue Bird Frac.M & R Group'

Location:	Sweet Grass County, Montana, United States, North America
Lat / long:	45.47772, -110.2027
dep_id:	10245973
mrds_id:	M060088
mas_id:	300970001
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Chromium
Trace mineral:	Copper, Nickel
Operation type:	Underground
Development status:	Past Producer
other_matl:	Bronzite, Chromite, Diopside, Olivine, Plagioclase, Serpentine
Reporter:	Spear, James M.
disc_yr:	1918
References:	Deposit:: HESS, H.H. STILLWATER IGNEOUS COMPLEX, MONTANA. GEOL. SOC. Deposit:: AMER. MEM. 80, 1960, 230 PP. Deposit:: JACKSON, E.D. THE CHROMITE DEPOSITS OF THE STILLWATER Deposit:: COMPLEX, MONTANA. IN ORE DEPOSITS IN THE U.S., 1933-1967, Deposit:: (GRATON SALES), V.2. NEW YORK, AIME, 1968, PP. 1495-1510. Deposit:: PAGE, N.J., AND J.C. DOHRENWEND. MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL Deposit:: OF THE STILLWATER COMPLEX AND ADJACENT ROCKS IN THE Deposit:: NORTHERN PART OF THE MT. WOOD & MT. DOUGLAS QUADRANGLES, Deposit:: SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRC. 684, 1973, Deposit:: 9 PP. Deposit:: SCHAFER, P.A. CHROMITE DEPOSITS OF MONTANA. MONTANA BUREAU Deposit:: OF MINES AND GEOL. MEMOIR 18, 1937, 35 PP. Deposit:: WIMMLER, N.L. INVESTIGATION OF CHROMITE DEPOSITS OF THE Deposit:: STILLWATER COMPLEX, STILLWATER AND SWEETGRASS COUNTIES, Deposit:: MONTANA. U.S. BUR OF MINES R.I. 4368, 1948, 41 PP. Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 948-C, 1949. Deposit:: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY MEMOIR 20, P. 112. Deposit:: MCHUGH, E., 1994, MLA REPORT IN PREPARATION. Deposit:: STILLWATER COMPLEX, DEPOSIT REPORT, 1980 BOM, READ, WFOC. Geology:: JONES, W.R., J.W. PEOPLES, AND A.L. HOWLAND. IGNEOUS AND Geology:: TECTONIC STRUCTURE OF THE STILLWATER COMPLEX, MONTANA. Geology:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1071-H, 1960, PP. 281-340. Geology:: JACKSON, E.D. PRIMARY TEXTURES AND MINERAL ASSOCIATIONS IN Geology:: THE ULTRAMAFIC ZONE OF THE STILLWATER COMPLEX, MONTANA, Geology:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 358, 1961, 106 PP. Geology:: JACKSON, E.D. STRATIGRAPHIC AND LATERAL VARIATION OF Geology:: CHROMITE COMPOSITION IN THE STILLWATER COMPLEX, MIN. SOC. Geology:: AMER. SPEC. PAPER 1, 1963, PP. 46-54. Production:: SULLIVAN, G.V. AND G.F. WORKENTINE. BENEFICIATING LOW-GRADE Production:: CHROMITES FROM THE STILLWATER COMPLEX, MONTANA. U.S. Production:: BUREAU OF MINES R.I. 6448, 1964, 29 PP. Reserve-Resource:: ANONYMOUS. CHROMIUM MATERIALS SURVEY. U.S. DEPT. OF COMMERCE Reserve-Resource:: 1962, 96 PP. Reserve-Resource:: HOWLAND, A.L., E.M. GARRELS, AND W.R. JONES. CHROMITE Reserve-Resource:: DEPOSITS OF THE BOULDER RIVER AREA, SWEETGRASS COUNTY, Reserve-Resource:: MONTANA. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 948-C, 1949, PP. 63-82. Reserve-Resource:: WAR MINERALS REPORT 399. GISH AREA, STILLWATER COMPLEX Reserve-Resource:: SWEETGRASS COUNTY, MONTANA; SUPPLEMENT TO WAR MINERALS REPORT 390, U.S. Reserve-Resource:: BUREAU OF MINES, 1945, 8 PP. Reserve-Resource:: CHROMIUM AVAILABILITY---DOMESTIC, BOM IC 8895, 1982. P4, Reserve-Resource:: TABLE 1.