The Silver Bow Deposits is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Silver Bow county, Montana.
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Mine Info
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Silver Bow Deposits MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Silver Bow Deposits
Secondary: Bull Moose
Secondary: Merrimac
Secondary: Wrong Font
Secondary: Eva
Secondary: Superior
Secondary: Delia
Secondary: Little Jack,
Commodity
Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Barium-Barite
Location
State: Montana
County: Silver Bow
District: Butte District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Bull Moose -John Clark And Helehan Family; Merrimac-Silver Bow Copper Co; Wrong Font-John Helehan
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1944
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Northern Rocky Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: BANDS
Structure
Type: R
Description: Boulder Batholith
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Oxidation, Sericitization
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: AVERAGE SAMPLE 83.34% CAF2
Materials
Ore: Fluorite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Barite
Comments
Comment (Workings): PITS AND TRENCHES
Comment (Deposit): BEST EXPOSURES NOW UNDER HIGHWAY, POSSIBLE ENOUGH GOLD AND SILVER PRESENT TO RECOVER FLOURITE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)
Comment (Production): FLUORITE PRODUCTION FOR METALLUGICAL PURPOSES (SMALL)
Comment (Deposit): PRINCIPAL EXPOSURE ON BULL MOOSE, AND MERRIMAC, BULL MOOSE ZONE 650 FT LONG
Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: WRONG FONT - 1944
References
Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 955-E, P. 214-217.
Reference (Deposit): KNECHTEL 1946, WRITTEN COMM.
Reference (Deposit): MBMG BULL 28, P. 6, 19-22
Principal Gold Districts of Montana
In Montana, 54 mining districts have each have produced more than 10,000 ounces of gold. The largest producers are Butte, Helena, Marysville, and Virginia City, each having produced more than one million ounces. Twenty seven other districts are each credited with between 100,000 and one million ounces of gold production. Read more: Principal Gold Districts of Montana.
