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Clark Fork Placer Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101490
MRDS ID D003822
Record type Site
Current site name Clark Fork Placer Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.6163, 47.85154 (WGS84)
Elevation 719
Relative position APPROX 1 MI NW OF THE TOWN TROUT CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanders(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Trout Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Thompson Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Sanders

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 024N 031W 07 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE. LITERATURE PLACES THE OPERATION "AT OR JUST BELOW THE MOUTH OF TROUT CREEK."

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 Gravel
    Rock description Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.6163, 47.85154
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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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • GOLD PRODUCED IN SMALL AMOUNTS IN 1915, 1916.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LYDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , P. 136

  • Production

    LYDEN, C. J., 1948 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , P. 136 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IT IS BELIEVED THAT MUCH OF THE GOLD FOUND IN THE GRAVELS OF THE CLARK FORK RIVER ORIGINATED WITHIN THE DRAINAGE BASIN OF TROUT CREEK, BUT TESTING MAY PROVE THAT SOME HAS BEEN CARRIED IN FROM VERMILLION CREEK.

Reporter information

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

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