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Quartz Creek Placer Mines

Past Producer in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010238
MRDS ID D003818
Record type Site
Current site name Quartz Creek Placer Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.81792, 47.01071 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097
Relative position APPROX 13 MI SE OF SUPERIOR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lozeau(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Plains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Lolo National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 015N 025W 31 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • APPROX LOCATION, ON QUARTZ CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.81792, 47.01071
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES ARE NOT AVAILABLE, BUT IT IS LOCALLY REPORTED THE MINES WERE NOT RICH. TOTAL PRODUCTION ALONG QUARTZ CREEK AND ALONG TUCKER GULCH WAS PROBABLY NOT MUCH MORE THAN $100000

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LYNDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , P. 103

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD WAS FREED BY THE WEATHERING AND EROSION OF THE OUTCROPS OF SMALL GOLD BEARING VEINS FOUND IN THE DISTRICT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Rojstaczer, Stuart A. U.S. Geological Survey

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