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German Gulch Placers

Past Producer in Silver Bow county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078301
MRDS ID W026570
Record type Site
Current site name German Gulch Placers
Alternate or previous names Siberia Placers
Related records 10124641

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.84146, 45.96767 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position APPROXIMATELY 5 MILES SOUTH OF GREGSON MONTANA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Burnt Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 003N 010W 26,33,34,35 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GENERALIZED AND APPROXIMATE, ALTITUDE APPROXIMATE WITH CENTRALIZED LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Chalcopyrite Gangue
Sylvanite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Boulder Batholith;Volcanics
    Rock description Boulder Batholith;Volcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.84146, 45.96767
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Boulder Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Tertiary Volcanics

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Length 9655.8M

Comments on the geologic information

  • PRECAMBRIAN, PALEOZOIC, MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC ROCKS ALL LOCATED WITHIN POSSIBLE SOURCE AREA, AS WELL AS THE BOULDER BATHOLITH AND TERTIARY VOLCANICS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1864
Discoverer Edward Alfield And Others
Year of first production 1865

Mining district

District name Siberia (German Gulch) District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • 5,000,000 DOLLARS IN GOLD REMOVED FROM GERMAN GULCH AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. PRIOR TO 1914 - LIMITED PRODUCTION SINCE 1914

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.304HA
    Overall length 9655.8M
    Overall width 321.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • AREA WAS PLACER MINED UTILIZING SLUICING AND HYDRAULICKING PROCESSES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DINGMAN, O. A., 1932 , PLACER MINING POSSIBILITIES IN MONTANA, MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, MEMOIR NO. 5 P. 28

  • Deposit

    LYDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEMOIR 26 , P. 142 , 143

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 574, P. 102-103.

  • Production

    WINCHELL, 1914

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LODE SOURCE IS SILIC AND PYRITIZED CRET. SEDS (HORNFELSED) ADJ TO N75E AND N88E FAULTS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1977 Mc Kenzie, Craig L.; R. B. Berg U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1980 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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