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Placer Creek Placer

Past Producer in Beaverhead 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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013881
MRDS ID D010422
Record type Site
Current site name Placer Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.4973, 45.65711 (WGS84)
Elevation 1914
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position 12.8 MI N78W OF WISDOM, Within 1000 Ft Along Gulch

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mud Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wisdom(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 Beaverhead

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 002S 017W 16,15,10 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • 2.5 MI NW OF BIG HOLE BATTLEFIELD ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

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) -113.4973, 45.65711
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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 Wisdom Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • DREDGE TAILINGS MARK LOWER EXTENT OF WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FIELD NOTES, USGS, R. PEARSON, DENVER, CO

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-83 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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