German Gulch Placers

The German Gulch Placers is a gold mine located in Silver Bow county, Montana at an elevation of 5,801 feet.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: German Gulch Placers  

State:  Montana

County:  Silver Bow

Elevation: 5,801 Feet (1,768 Meters)

Commodity: Gold

Lat, Long: 45.96778, -112.84056

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German Gulch Placers MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: German Gulch Placers
Secondary: Siberia Placers


Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver


Location

State: Montana
County: Silver Bow
District: Siberia (German Gulch) 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

Type: Surface


Ownership

Not available


Production

Not available


Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1865
Discovery Year: 1864
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
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: IRREGULAR


Structure

Type: R
Description: Boulder Batholith

Type: L
Description: Tertiary Volcanics


Alterations

Not available


Rocks

Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene

Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene


Analytical Data

Not available


Materials

Ore: Gold
Gangue: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Sylvanite


Comments

Comment (Production): 5,000,000 DOLLARS IN GOLD REMOVED FROM GERMAN GULCH AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. PRIOR TO 1914 - LIMITED PRODUCTION SINCE 1914

Comment (Workings): AREA WAS PLACER MINED UTILIZING SLUICING AND HYDRAULICKING PROCESSES

Comment (Geology): PRECAMBRIAN, PALEOZOIC, MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC ROCKS ALL LOCATED WITHIN POSSIBLE SOURCE AREA, AS WELL AS THE BOULDER BATHOLITH AND TERTIARY VOLCANICS.

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

Comment (Location): LOCATION GENERALIZED AND APPROXIMATE, ALTITUDE APPROXIMATE WITH CENTRALIZED LOCATION


References

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

Reference (Deposit): USGS BULL 574, P. 102-103.

Reference (Production): WINCHELL, 1914

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


Principal Gold Districts of Montana

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.