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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Mine Info
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
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.
