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Silver Bow Creek Placer

Past Producer in Silver Bow 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. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019807
MRDS ID DC11597
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Bow Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Clark Fork River

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.72728, 46.01296 (WGS84)
Relative position FLOWS THROUGH BUTTE. MOST PLACER WORK HAS BEEN BETWEEN BUTTE AND MILES CROSSING.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ramsay(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper 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 Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 003N;003N 008W;009W 16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24;13,15,16,22,23,24 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LAT LONG ARE ON MILES CROSSING.

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.72728, 46.01296
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Boulder Batholith

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE SOURCE OF THE GOLD IS FROM VEINS THAT ARE EXPOSED IN THE MISSOULA GULCH, VEINS WEST OF BUTTE AND ON BOTH SIDESOF THE VALLEY THAT THE CREEK FLOWS THROUGH.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1864
Discoverer Frank Ruff, Bud Baker, Peter Slater And Others.
Production years 1932-44

Mining district

District name Butte District

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION LESS THAN $1000000 AT 580 TO 700 FINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM NO 26, P. 139, 143-4.

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 610, P. 170.

  • Production

    MBMG MEM NO 26, P. 143-4.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DUE TO RIGHT OF WAY OF 3 RAILROADS, COUNTY SANITARY DRAINAGE, AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS IT IS DOUBTFUL WHETHER THIS CR COULD BE DREDGED. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

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