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Madag Placer

Occurrence in Deer Lodge 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. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10022806
MRDS ID FS00287
Record type Site
Current site name Madag Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.68118, 46.21934 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position DRY COTTENWOOD CR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Deer Lodge(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Orofino Mountain(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)

Federal lands

Beaverhead-Deerlodge 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 Deer Lodge

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 005N 009W 01 Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOLD IS PRESUMED TO OCCUR

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result NO ASSAY REPORT

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Boulder Batholith
    Rock description Boulder Batholith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.68118, 46.21934
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1931
Discoverer Martin Morrisette, Adolph Nagel, Henry Nagel

Mining district

District name Boulder Mountains Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Martin Morrisette, Adolph Nagel, Henry Nagel

Comments on the workings information

  • NO IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FS FILES

  • Deposit

    1938 DIREXPL USF

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Steward, Candis A. U.S. Geological Survey

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