Petty Creek Placers

Producer in Missoula county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Copper
Sections on this page
  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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107915
MRDS ID D003869
Record type Site
Current site name Petty Creek Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.46264, 46.89932 (WGS84)
Elevation 1067
Relative position 7 MILE SOUTH OF LOTHROP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Missoula(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Petty Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Missoula West(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Hamilton(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 013N 023W Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION GIVEN IS APPROXIMATE ALONG PETTY CREEK
  • Original political location in the record was Ravalli county. However, the lat/long and PLSS, plot in Missoula county. The site name indicates a location on Petty Creek, which agrees with the lat/long, PLSS, and Missoula county. The location description 7 MILE SOUTH OF LOTHROP also agrees. So the county name was changed to Missoula. The PLSS range was changed from 0234 to 023W.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.46264, 46.89932

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Placer

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Petty Creek

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LYDEN, C. J., 1948 , GOLD PLACERS IN MONTANA, MONT. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., MEM 26 , P. 109 .

  • Location

    Original political location in the record was Ravalli county. However, the lat/long and PLSS, plot in Missoula county. The site name indicates a location on Petty Creek, which agrees with the lat/long, PLSS and Missoula county. The location description 7 MILE SOUTH OF LOTHROP also agrees. So the county name was changed to Missoula. The PLSS range was changed from 0234 to 023W.

  • Deposit

    SAHINEN, U. M., 1957 , MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS, MISSOULA AND RAVALLI CO., MONT., MONT. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL 8 , P. 11 , 12 , 13 .

  • Deposit

    1948 COMPILE MBMG, MEM 26

  • Deposit

    1957 COMPILE MBMG, BULL 8

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Doyle, Brien (Wells, John) U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 30-OCT-2008 Schruben, Paul U.S. Geological Survey Fixed lat/long - county disagreement.

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.