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Upper Moose Creek Placer

Past Producer in Silver Bow 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. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013601
MRDS ID D009993
Record type Site
Current site name Upper Moose Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.57866, 45.77073 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042
Relative position 12.7 MI N 80 E OF DIVIDE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Humbug(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 001S 008W 03,09,10 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • ALONG MOOSE CR. FOR 1 MI SO OF MOOSE TOWN SITE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

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) -112.57866, 45.77073
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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
Discovery year 1866
Year of first production 1866

Mining district

District name Moose Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Lee Mantle
    First year 1950

Comments on development

  • MIN. SUR. 313-MOOSE CR PLACER IN VICINITY OF MOOSE TOWN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 32, PL 5

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 9, P. 29

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOOSE CR AND TRIBUTARIES HAVE YIELDED SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN PLACER GOLD (MBMG MEM 9). ANOTHER GROUP OF MOOSE CR PLACERS IS NEAR BIG HOLE RIVER. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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