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Josephine Creek Placer Mine

Producer in Missoula 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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019053
MRDS ID DC08415
Record type Site
Current site name Josephine Creek Placer Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.51764, 47.16349 (WGS84)
Elevation 1109
Relative position APPROX 11 MI N-NW OF ALBERTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Missoula(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stark North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Plains(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 Missoula

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 016N 023W 09 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • APPROX LOCATION, ON JOSEPHINE CREEK

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 > Sand and Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.51764, 47.16349
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Nine Mile District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • OPERATIONS IN 1941 ALONG JOSEPHINE, MCCORMICK AND NINE MILE CREEKS WASHED A TOTAL OF 506187 CUBIC YDS OF GRAVEL AND RECOVERED 2858 FINE OZ OF AU.

Comments on development

  • A DRY LAND DREDGE WAS INTERMITTENTLY OPERATED FROM 1941 - 1942 ON JOSEPHINE CREEK.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LYDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 106-107 .

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 03-10-1961

  • Production

    LYDEN, C. J., 1948 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , P. 107 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD BEARING GRAVELS OF NINE MILE CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES ARE REPORTED TO BE EITHER GLACIAL TILL OR GLACIAL MORAINE.

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.

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