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Upper Willow Creek Placer

Past Producer in Granite 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019784
MRDS ID DC11489
Record type Site
Current site name Upper Willow Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.50037, 46.4235 (WGS84)
Relative position S FLOWING TRIBUTARY OF ROCK CREEK, E OF RAM MT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Alder Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Flint-Rock(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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 008N 015W 18,19,20,30,31,32 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LAT. LONG. CONFLUENCE OF UPPER WILLOW AND NILES GULCH, PLACER MINING UP ALDER, NILES AND MINERS GULCHES ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

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 > Glacial Sediment
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.50037, 46.4235
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Anaconda Range Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL OVERALL PRODUCTION, INTERMITTENTLY. FROM 1904 TO 1945

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM NO 26, P. 35, 36

  • Production

    MBMG MEM NO 26, P. 36.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1981 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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