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Meadow Creek Placer Mine

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 10019065
MRDS ID DC08461
Record type Site
Current site name Meadow Creek Placer Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.82792, 47.04266 (WGS84)
Elevation 1049
Relative position 10.6 MI SE OF SUPERIOR

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

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 015N 025W 24 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR THE MOUTH OF SMITH GULCH

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) -114.82792, 47.04266
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • OTHER PLACERS ALONG MEADOW CREEK HAVE BEEN NEITHER LARGE OR RICH AND HAVE BEEN GENERALLY WORKED BY DRIFTING ON THE PAY STREAK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Meadow Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner C And H Co.

Comments on development

  • NEW DEVELOPMENT WORK BEGAN IN 1977

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LYNDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , P. 102 .

  • Deposit

    LAWSON, D. C., DIRECTORY OF MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1977 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 107 , P. 25 .

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 04-04-1961

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLACER DEPOSITS WITHIN THE AREA ARE INTIMATELY RELATED TO LODE DEPOSITS.
Deposit INACTIVE (1956) ; 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

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