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Little Gold Creek Placer

Past Producer in Granite county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum, Copper, Lead, Tungsten, REE, Titanium, Metal
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10038143
MRDS ID M045429
Record type Site
Current site name Little Gold Creek Placer
Related records 10220487

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.13369, 46.41322 (WGS84)
Elevation 1905
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 9 MI NORTHEAST OF PHILIPSBURG; 2 MI SOUTH OF PRINCETON CREEK, Acc Along Creek

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Maxville(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)

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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 008N 012W 31,29,28,22,21 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • IN DEERLODGE NATIONAL FOREST. LOCATION GIVEN IS WHERE CREEK IS CROSSED BY A ROAD INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Secondary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
REE Critical Tertiary
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Platinum Ore
Wolframite Ore
Ilmenite Gangue
Monazite Gangue
Zircon Gangue

Analytical data

Result BLACK SAND CONCENTRATE: AU=$30/TON (50 PPM), PT=$1/TON (1.1 PPM) (1900). GRAVEL YIELDED 5 LB BLACK SAND/TON GRAVEL

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.13369, 46.41322
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form GRAVEL ACCUMULATION

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Hydraulics

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Princeton (South Boulder Creek) District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • THERE WAS MINIMAL PRODUCTION

Comments on the workings information

  • SLUICING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LYDEN, C.J., 1948, THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEMOIR 26, P. 35, 41.

  • Deposit

    EMMONS, W.H., AND CALKINS, F.C., 1913, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE PHILIPSBURG QUADRANGLE, MONTANA: U.S. GELOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 78, P. 264.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-80 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-91 Peterson, Jocelyn A. 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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