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Deer Creek Placer

Past Producer in Mineral 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. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019048
MRDS ID DC08406
Record type Site
Current site name Deer Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.36156, 47.37515 (WGS84)
Elevation 951
Relative position APPROX. 1/2 MI W OF DEBORGIA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

De Borgia North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Lolo 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 019N 030W 25 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE

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 > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Till

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.36156, 47.37515
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Nw Trending Fault (Silver Creek). Throws Along Fault Range From 2000 To Several Thousand Ft. Region Has A General Structural Grain Of Nw Trending Faults And Folds.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Comments on the production information

  • ALTHOUGH TOTAL PRODUCTION WAS NOT GREAT, SOME "RICH AREAS" WERE FOUND. SLUICING OPERATIONS DURING 1924 YIELDED $124 ON ONE CLAIM - THIS IS THE ONLY PRODUCTION FIGURE FOUND WITHIN LITERATURE.

Comments on development

  • GROUNDS ALONG CREEK HAVE BEEN PATENTED. MOST PLACER MINING WAS DONE BY HAND. CREEK WAS WORKED ALONG ALMOST ITS ENTIRE LENGTH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WALLACE, R. E. AND HOSTERMAN, J. W., 1956 , RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGY OF WESTERN MINERAL COUNTY, MONTANA: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1027-M, P. 608 , PL. 48 .

  • Deposit

    LYDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , P. 99 .

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 02-15-1963

  • Production

    WALLACE, R. E. AND HOSTERMAN, J. W., 1956 : US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1027-M, P. 608 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LARGE PILES OF HAND SORTED BOULDERS ALONG THE CREEK INDICATE THAT PANNING WAS DIFFICULT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1979 Rojstaczer, Stuart A. U.S. Geological Survey

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