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Sandy Creek Placer

Past Producer in Lemhi county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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 10070435
MRDS ID W013372
MAS/MILS ID 0160590200
Record type Site
Current site name Sandy Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.66171, 45.05099 (WGS84)
Elevation 1433
Location accuracy 5000(meters)
Relative position 15 1/2 MI. ESE OF SALMON, Within 2 Mi Along Cr.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lemhi(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Baker(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salmon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lemhi(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management ID)

Bureau of Land Management ID BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Lemhi

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 020N 024E 19,18 Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.66171, 45.05099
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Pratt Creek District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    Anderson, A. L., 1957, Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geol. Pamphlet 112, 71 P.

  • Deposit

    Anderson, A. L., 1957, Geology And Mineral Resources Of The Baker Quadrangle, Lemhi County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 112, 71 P

  • Deposit

    Lorain, S.H. And Metzger, O.H., 1939, USBM Inf Circ 7082 81 P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-74 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-80 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 30-DEC-96 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

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

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