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City Creek Gold Placer

Past Producer in Bonneville county in Idaho, 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 10073266
MRDS ID W019250
MAS/MILS ID 0160190085
Record type Site
Current site name City Creek Gold Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.34891, 43.13242 (WGS84)
Elevation 2057
Relative position 1.5 MI NW OF KEENAN CITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Bonneville(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Elk Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Palisades(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Driggs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Palisades(hydrologic unit)

Snake Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Caribou-Targhee 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 Idaho Bonneville

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 003S 044E 30 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • On City Creek, Approximately 3 Miles Ne Of Caribou Mtn.

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
    Rock unit name Alluvium-Gravels
    Rock description Alluvium-Gravels
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.34891, 43.13242
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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 Mount Pisgah District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Caribou National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Savage, C. N., 1961 , Geology And Mineral Resources Of Bonneville County: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology County Report No. 5 , P. 8

  • Deposit

    1961 Recon Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology County Rept. No.

  • Production

    Savage, C. N., 1961 , Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology County Rept. No. 5

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1976 Fabiyi, E. E. (Miller, Pat) U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 30-JAN-1995 Winters, Dick U.S. Bureau of Mines

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