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Housum Placer

Past Producer in Missoula 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. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101489
MRDS ID D003819
Record type Site
Current site name Housum Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.62431, 47.20849 (WGS84)
Elevation 1183
Relative position 11 MI S - SW OF PERMA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Missoula(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stark North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Plains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Lolo 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 Missoula

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 017N 024W 26 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • ALONG THE UPPER PORTION OF NINE MILE CREEK BETWEEN BURNT AND SOLDIER CREEKS.

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 > Sand and Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.62431, 47.20849
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Nine Mile District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • IN 1940 GRAVEL AVERAGED 23 CENTS PER CUBIC YD. OPERATIONS ON THE HOUSUM, JOSEPHINE CREEK AND MCCORMICK CREEK PLACERS IN 1941 RECOVERED A TOTAL OF 1696 FINE OZ AU.

Comments on development

  • A DRAG LINE DREDGE WAS ASSEMBLED ON THE PLACER IN 1940 . IT OPERATED INTERMITTENTLY UNTIL 1942 WHEN OPERATIONS WERE SUSPENDED DUE TO WWII. INTERMITTENT OPERATION WAS RESUMED IN 1946 BUT WAS NOT CONTINUED IN 1947 .

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LYNDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , PP. 106 - 107

  • Production

    LYNDEN, C. J., 1948 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , PP. 106 - 107 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD BEARING GRAVELS OF NINE MILE CREEK ARE REPORTED TO BE EITHER GLACIAL TILL OR MORAINE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Rojstaczer, Stuart A. U.S. Geological Survey

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