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Deep Creek Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010242
MRDS ID D003824
Record type Site
Current site name Deep Creek Mine
Alternate or previous names Gold Hill Mine, Gold Mountain Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.97015, 47.05544 (WGS84)
Elevation 1390
Relative position 10.2 MI SW OF SUPERIOR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Landowner Mountain(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 027W 14 NW OF SE Montana

Comments on the location information

  • ON LIME GULCH. A TRIBUTARY OF DEEP CREEK IN LOLO NATIONAL FOREST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Trout Creek District, Iron Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Gold Mountain Mining Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 304.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 OPEN PITS, TUNNEL

Comments on development

  • 7 UNPATENTED CLAIMS ; ECON.COM: MILL WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN THE EARLY 1930S

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GILBERT, F. C., 1935 , DIRECTORY OF MONTANA MINING PROPERTIES: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 15 , P. 60 .

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEMOIR 31, 1950, P. 75

  • Deposit

    CONSV DIV COMP. DATA, 04-04-1961

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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