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Marble Creek Placer

Occurrence in Valley 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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10093709
MRDS ID W019424
Record type Site
Current site name Marble Creek Placer
Related records 10193397

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.10065, 44.93798 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Relative position 12 MI ENE OF STIBNITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Valley(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Safety Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pistol Creek(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Middle Fork Salmon(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Payette National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Valley

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 019N 011E 34 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • FROM MOUTH OF SUNNYSIDE CR DOWNSTREAM TO MOUTH OF CORNISH CR

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result 21 SAMPLES FROM 9 TEST SITES CONTAINED TRACE OF GOLD AND AVG LESS THAN 2 LBS BLACK SANDS / CY

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.10065, 44.93798
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 45.72M
    Depth to bottom 3.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Thunder Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Payette National Forest
Ownership category National Primitive Area
Area name Idaho Primitive Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CATER, F. W., AND OTHERS, 1973 , MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE IDAHO PRIMITIVE AREA AND VICINITY, IDAHO: USGS BULL. 1304 , P. 69

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON F. W. CATER AND OTHERS, BULL. 130

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 54 ACRES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1977 Miller, Pat J. 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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