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Prospect Creek Placer

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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010501
MRDS ID D004214
Record type Site
Current site name Prospect Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.57545, 47.54431 (WGS84)
Elevation 963
Relative position APPROX 3 MI S OF DRIVEWAY PEAK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanders(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Driveway Peak(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

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 Sanders

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 021N 031W 28 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • PROSPECT CREEK, NEAR BUSTER BROWN GULCH.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.57545, 47.54431
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1914
Year of last production 1914

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION WAS BY A LONE OPERATOR WHOSE TAKE WAS NOT RECORDED NOR THE EXACT POSITION OF HIS CLAIM.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBM & G. MEM. 26, 1948 P. 138.

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF MINES MINERAL AVAILABILITY SYSTEM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1980 Chesson, Sharon A. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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