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Cow 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. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013926
MRDS ID D010489
Record type Site
Current site name Cow Creek Placer
Related records 10123460

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.77092, 45.54433 (WGS84)
Elevation 2027
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 16.4 MI S72W OF WISDOM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Hole Pass(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)

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 Beaverhead

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 018W 003S 25 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • SMALL PLACERING ALONG COW CR. LOCATION APPROXIMATE ; 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) Sediment or sedimentary rock
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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 1898

Mining district

District name Beaverhead Range

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner W. P. Nelson

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WOLLE, M.S., 1963, MONTANA PAY DIRT - A GUIDE TO THE MINING CAMPS O F THE TREASURE STATE: DENVER, SAGE BOOKS, 436 P

Reporter information

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

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