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Upper Rochester 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. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013916
MRDS ID D010475
Record type Site
Current site name Upper Rochester Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Klondike Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.51894, 45.66101 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 8.2 MI N 75 E OF MELROSE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madison(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

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management MT)

Bureau of Land Management MT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Madison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 002S 007W 18 W2 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • 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) -112.51894, 45.66101
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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
Year of first production 1895

Mining district

District name Rochester District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHAFTS, SLUICE TAILINGS

Comments on development

  • POPULAR REPORTS CLAIM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS PRODUCED, BUT EXTENT OF WORKINGS IS SMALL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 85

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-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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