Cameron Creek Placer

Occurrence in Ravalli county in Montana, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron, REE, Zirconium
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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011225
MRDS ID D005561
Record type Site
Current site name Cameron Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.95926, 45.91656 (WGS84)
Elevation 1390
Relative position 25 MILES SSE OF HAMILTON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Ravalli(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

French Basin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wisdom(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bitterroot(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bitterroot 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 Ravalli

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 002N 019W 16,15,22,27,34 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • DEPOSIT EXTENCDS 5 MILES ALONG CAMERON CREEK, INCLUDING LOWER PARTS OF DORAN AND HART CREEKS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary
Iron Primary
REE Critical Secondary
Zirconium Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Garnet Ore
Ilmenite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Monazite Ore
Zircon Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result BLACK SAND CONTENT IN 8 SAMPLES RANGED FROM 4.5 TO 33.3 LB/CU YD. ILMENITE WAS 25 TO 75% OF SAND. MONZONITE AVERAGED 0.5 LB/CU YD. ZIRCON WAS 0.26 LB/CU YD AND GARNET 0.28 LB/CU YD.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.95926, 45.91656

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Idaho Batholith

Ore body information

  • Length 8046.5M
    Width 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvium-Sand, Angular To Subangular Pebbles, Some Boulders Up To 1 Ft Diameter.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Sula District

Comments on the workings information

  • TEST PITS ONLY.

Comments on development

  • 6 TEST PITS 2 TO 4 FT IN DEPTH, AND 2 CHANNEL SAMPLES FROM DRAINAGE DITCHES 7 TO 10 FT IN DEPTH. BEDROCK WAS NOT REACHED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOLT, D. C., 1964, TITANIUM PLACERS - WESTERN MONTANA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPT. INV. 6365, P. 16-17.

  • Deposit

    KAUFFMAN, A. J., AND HOLT, D. C., 1965, ZIRCON- REVIEW OF WEST COAST RESOURCES: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INF. CIRC. 8268, P. 18-19.

  • Deposit

    1964 DIREXP US BUR MINES, R.I. 636

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit STRAM ALLUVIUM DERIVED FROM COARSE-GRAINED GRANITIC COUNTRY ROCK AND SMALL PEGMATITE DIKES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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