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Mineral Hill, Jardine
Montana, USA
Main commodities: Au


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The Mineral Hill Mine at Jardine is an Archaean lode gold deposit in the Beartooth Mountains of south-western Montana, USA.

Mineralisation is hosted by 3.0 to 3.2 Ga lower amphibolite facies grunerite bearing banded iron formation and meta-turbidites on the Wyoming Craton.

Three types of ore have been mined, namely: 1). the dominant style where Au is contained in marginal wall rock altered envelopes of arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite, hornblende and grunerite sandwiching 0.01 to 1 m thick quartz veins within iron formation,   2). in generally less than 5 m thick banded quartz veins with little or no accompanying wall rock alteration, and   3). in deformed quartz boudins.

The total pre-mine resource has been estimated at 0.9 Mt of ore @ 9.33 g/t Au.

For detail see the reference(s) listed below.

The most recent source geological information used to prepare this decription was dated: 1995.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Smith D S  1996 - Hydrothermal alteration at the Mineral Hill Mine, Jardine, Montana: a lower Amphibolite facies Archean lode Gold deposit of probable synmetamorphic origin: in    Econ. Geol.   v91 pp 723-750


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