Big Creek Placer

Past Producer in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodity Gold

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Public Land Survey System information
Commodities
Materials information
Host and associated rocks
Nearby scientific data
Geologic structures
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Land status
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
General comments
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10019049
MRDS ID	DC08407
Record type	Site
Current site name	Big Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-115.38767, 47.37765 (WGS84)
Elevation	945
Relative position	APPROX. 1 MI SE OF HAUGAN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Haugan(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)

Geographic areas

Country	State	County
United States	Montana	Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian	Township	Range	Section	Fraction	State
Montana Principal	019N	030W	26		Montana

Comments on the location information

APPROX LOCATION, CLOSE TO CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, ST. PAUL AND PACIFIC RAILROAD

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
Host or associated Host

Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Till

Host or associated	Host
Rock type	Unconsolidated Deposit > Till

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-115.38767, 47.37765	ListMap

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

Land status

Ownership category	National Forest

Comments on the production information

ALTHOUGH PRODUCTION WAS NOT GREAT, SOME "RICH AREAS" WERE FOUND.

Comments on development

MOST MINING WAS DONE BY HAND

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	DC08407

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

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	SEE ALSO SPAR MINING CO. PLACER (REC-ID D004044) ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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