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Montana Creek Placer

Past Producer in Alaska, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10002704
MRDS ID A015146
Record type Site
Current site name Montana Creek Placer
Related records 10160766

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -142.34105, 64.32058 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 20 MILES NW OF CHICKEN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Southeast Fairbanks(Census area)

Alaska(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eagle B-3(quadrangle 1:63,360 scale)

Eagle SW(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Eagle C(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Alaska(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State
United States Alaska

Comments on the location information

  • USGS MF-393, LOC. 44. COORDINATES GIVEN ARE FOR MINE MARKED ON EAGLE (B-3) APPROXIMATELY 1 MILE UPSTREAM FROM MINE MARKED AT MOUTH OF MONTANA CREEK. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 6-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH BLM 1:2,500,000 SCALE OWNERSHIP STATUS MAP (1991).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -142.34105, 64.32058
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 1609.3M

Comments on the geologic information

  • TRIBUTARY OF HUTCHINSON CR.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1902
Year of last production 1912

Mining district

District name Fortymile

Land status

Ownership category State

Comments on development

  • INTERMITTANT SMALL SCALE MINING BETWEEN 1902 AND 1912. PRODUCTION SMALL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD IN STREAM PLACER. SOME GOOD RESULTS NEAR MOUTH REPORTED.
Deposit STREAM GRADIENT ABOUT 200 FEET PER MILE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit THIS SITE NAME WAS CREATED BY THE REPORTER OR OTHER USGS EMPLOYEE BASED ON PROXIMITY TO SOME MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC FEATURE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1987 Powers, M.T. (Huber, D.F.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Alaska resources

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