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Camp Creek Placer

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012865
MRDS ID D008849
Record type Site
Current site name Camp Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.53255, 45.6999 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 5000(meters)
Relative position 8 MI. NE OF MELROSE, Two Miles Up And Downstream From Location

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wickiup Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Hole(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Madison
United States Montana Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 001S;001S;002S 007W;008W;008W 30,31;25,36;10,11,02,01 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • Political location in record is Silver Bow county. However, lat/long plots just inside Madison county. Since the county boundary coincides with the placer stream, Madison county was added to the county name list and promoted to first place.

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 > Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.53255, 45.6999
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Melrose (Camp Creek) District

Comments on development

  • SMALL PRODUCTION FROM SEVERAL CLAIMS BEFORE 1900.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    M.B.M.G. MEM. 26, 1948, P. 140-1

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-82 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 25-JUL-08 Schruben, Paul U.S. Geological Survey Fixed lat/long - county disagreement.

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

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