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Lost Creek Placer

Past Producer in Deer Lodge 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. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011763
MRDS ID D006883
Record type Site
Current site name Lost Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Antelope Cr. & Spring Cr.
Related records 10246059

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.89118, 46.16239 (WGS84)
Relative position LOST CREEK IS 4.0 MI S OF RACETRACK STATION ON THE N.P. AND C.M. ST. P. AND P. RAILROAD.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Deer Lodge(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Anaconda North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Deer Lodge

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 005N;005N 011W;010W 12,15,23,25,26;06,07,08,17,19,20,29,30 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LAT. LONG. WHERE LOST CR. AND ANTELOPE CR. JOIN.

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
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.89118, 46.16239
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Mount Powell Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Lost Creek Granite Stock

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1939

Mining district

District name Lost Creek District

Comments on the production information

  • $51.00 (1932) AU FROM ANTELOPE CREEK

Comments on the workings information

  • DRY-LAND DREDGE ACTIVE ON SPRING CREEK THE SUMMER OF 1947.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 25, 27

  • Production

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 27.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

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