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Ramshorn Creek Placer

Producer in Madison 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107988
MRDS ID D009996
Record type Site
Current site name Ramshorn Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Ramshorn Gulch

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.04447, 45.44434 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position 7.5 MI S 8 E OF SHERIDAN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madison(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copper Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ruby(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Beaverhead-Deerlodge 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 Madison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 004S;004S;005S 003W;004W;004W 30,29;36,35;02,03,04 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION PT IS 1 MI UPSTREAM OF AGITATOR-CONCENTRATOR MINE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

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 > Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.04447, 45.44434
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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 1870
Discoverer Mckay
Year of first production 1875
Year of last production 1930

Mining district

District name Sheridan (Ramshorn Creek) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 5, P. 25

  • Deposit

    MIN RES US, 1916

  • Deposit

    LEVANDOWSKI, D.W., 1956 PHD, UNIV OF MICH

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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