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Warm Spring Creek Placer

Past Producer in Granite 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. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011777
MRDS ID D006901
Record type Site
Current site name Warm Spring Creek Placer
Related records 10245646

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.13813, 46.261 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position RISES IN FLINT CREEK RANGE ABOUT 8.5 MILES SE OF PHILIPSBURG.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fred Burr Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(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)

Federal lands

Beaverhead-Deerlodge 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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 006N;006N 012W;013W 07,08,09,17,18,19,30;13,25,35,36 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LAT. LONG. CONFLUENCE OF EAST AND MIDDLE FORK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

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) -113.13813, 46.261
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Philipsburg Batholith

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1933
Year of last production 1934

Mining district

District name Johnson Basin District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • NOT FAR BELOW YELLOW METAL, ST. THOMAS OR NORTHERN CROSS MINES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 35, 41, 42

  • Production

    MBMG MEM NO 26, P. 42

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-81 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

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