Straight Creek Placers

Occurrence in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010278
MRDS ID D003875
Record type Site
Current site name Straight Creek Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.8357, 46.9096 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219
Relative position 35 MILES WEST OF MISSOULA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Saint Patrick Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Missoula West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hamilton(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 013N 026W 01,02,03 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS FOR APROXIMATE CENTER OF PLACERS

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 > Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.8357, 46.9096

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Placer

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LYDEN, C. J., 1948 , GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA, MONT. BUR OF MINES AND GEOL., MEM 26 , P. 103

  • Deposit

    1948 COMPILE MBMG, MEM 2

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Doyle, Brien (Wells, John) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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