Mine detail: Basin Creek Mine

Previously called 'Paupers DreamPaupers Dream ProjectColumbiaLuttrell'

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Location

Lat / long: 46.4216, -112.29669

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Pyrite, Arsenopyrite
Discovery year: 1865

Production

Operation type: Surface
Deposit type: Hot-Spring Au-Ag
Development status: Plant
First production started: 1902

Geology

Host rock:Rhyolite
Host type:Rhyolite
Associated rock:Rhyolite
Associated type:Rhyolite

References

MAS300490124
DEP10245976
Reference{Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 842, 1933, P. 260.}{Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1151, P. 115-116.}{Deposit:: RANDOL GOLD DIRECTORY, 1988.}{Deposit:: MONT. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 129, 1991,}{Deposit:: MONT. BUR MINES, BULL 130, 1992.}{Production:: PEGASUS GOLD INC. FORM 10-K 1995, P.7.}{Reserve-Resource:: PEGASUS GOLD INC. 1994 ANNUAL REPORT. P11.}{Reserve-Resource:: PEGASUS GOLD INC. FORM 10-K 1994. PP6,21.}
ReporterSchruben, Paul, Buckingham, David A.