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Cedar Creek Placer Mine

Producer in Mineral 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 10107914
MRDS ID D003817
Record type Site
Current site name Cedar Creek Placer Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.96821, 47.14432 (WGS84)
Elevation 1021
Relative position APPROX. 5 MI SW OF SUPERIOR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Superior(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 016N 027W 14 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • APPROX LOCATION, WHERE OREGON GULCH INTERSECTS CEDAR 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 > Sand and Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.96821, 47.14432
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1869

Mining district

District name Cedar Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • IT HAS BEEN VARIOUSLY ESTIMATED THAT PLACER MINES FROM 1867 - 1947 YIELDED AS MUCH AS $10000000 AND AS LITTLE AS LESS THAN $2000000 ALONG CEDAR CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. YIELDS IN 1875 WERE REPORTED TO BE AS HIGH AS $6.00/YD.

Comments on the workings information

  • SINCE DISCOVERY, GOLD HAS BEEN RECOVERED AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER BY ALMOST EVERY METHOD GENERALLY USED IN THIS COUNTRY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LYNDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , PP. 100 - 102

  • Production

    LYNDEN, C. J., 1948 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , P. 100 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLACER GOLD HAS EXHIBITED EXTREME PURITY. SOME 0.982 FINE GOLD HAS BEEN RECOVERED AND IT IS NOT UNUSUAL FOR THE GOLD TO BE 0.960 TO 0.970 FINE. PLACERS WITHIN CEDAR CREEK DISTRICT ARE INTIMATELY ASSOCIATED WITH NEARBY LODE DEPOSITS.
Deposit MOST IMPORTANT TRIBUTARY OF CEDAR CREEK IS OREGON GULCH ALONG WHICH MANY PLACER CLAIMS ARE INTERMITTENTLY ACTIVE. A SMALLER TRIBUTARY, SNOWSHOE GULCH, HAS ALSO BEEN INTERMITTENTLY ACTIVE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

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