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Granite Creek Placer Mine

Past Producer in Sanders 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. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010240
MRDS ID D003821
Record type Site
Current site name Granite Creek Placer Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.72296, 47.78848 (WGS84)
Elevation 884
Relative position 6.6 MI SW OF TROUT CREEK, MONT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanders(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Larchwood(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Thompson Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Kootenai 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 Sanders

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 023N 032W 05,04 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • JUST ABOVE AND AT THE MOUTH OF GRANITE CREEK, A TRIBUTARY OF EAST FORK OF TROUT 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) -115.72296, 47.78848
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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

Mining district

District name Trout Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • FROM 1904 - 1947 GOLD RECOVERED FROM ALL PLACER CLAIMS ALONG TROUT CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES - INCLUDING GRANITE CREEK - TOTALED $2551 IN VALUE.

Comments on development

  • SO FAR AS KNOWN ALL WORK SINCE 1904 WAS DONE FROM 1913 TO 1917 , INCLUSIVE. IT IS REPORTED THAT AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY PLACER CLAIMS ALONG GRANITE CREEK WERE PAYING WELL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LYNDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , PP. 135 - 136

Reporter information

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

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