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Swastika 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. 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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019063
MRDS ID DC08458
Record type Site
Current site name Swastika Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.75515, 47.03044 (WGS84)
Relative position APPROX. 1 MI NW OF TARKIO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lozeau(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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 015N 025W 27,34 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • ADJACENT TO THE CLARK FORK.

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) -114.75515, 47.03044
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: ANCIENT RIVER DEPOSIT 60 FT AVOVE RIVER. KNOWN AS TEXAS BAR, AU FROM COASRE NUGGETS TO FLAKES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Cedar Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Louis, William, Mary, And Edwin Cullen
    Home office 4012 Corliss Ave., Seattle, Wa.

Comments on the workings information

  • 300 FT OF GROUND HAD BEEN WORKED AS OF 1934 .

Comments on development

  • 16 1/2 PATENTED CLAIMS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GILBERT, F. C., 1935 , DIRECTORY OF MONTANA MINING PROPERTIES: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 15 , P. 61 .

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 05-24-1961

  • Production

    GILBERT, F. C., 1935 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. MEM. 15 , P. 61 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OVERBURDEN IS 60 FT THICK. 1934 MINING OCCURRED ON TWO PAYSTREAKS; GOLD VARIED FROM COARSE NUGGETS TO FLAKES.

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

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