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Trout Creek Placer Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  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 10270497
MRDS ID W016804
MAS/MILS ID 0300610050
Record type Site
Current site name Trout Creek Placer Mine
Related records 60001720

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -114.98318, 47.01958 (WGS84)
Elevation 1268

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Landowner Mountain(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 015 N 027 W 35 C NW Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -114.98318, 47.01958
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1872

Comments on exploration

  • ACTIVITY HAS BEEN INTERMITTENT ALONG TROUT CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES SINCE THE PLACER DEPOSITS WERE DISCOVERED

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • WORK PREVIOUSLY DONE ALONG THESE CREEKS WAS PRINCIPALLY DONE BY SLUICING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBM G MEM 31, 1949 P.77

  • Deposit

    DEPOSITS ALSO IN SECS. 24, 25, 26, 34 TOWNSHIP 015N RANGE 02

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General ALTHOUGH PLACER GOLD HAS BEEN RECOVERED FROM THE GRAVEL BARS OF TROUT CREEK ITSELF, WINDFALL CREEK-ONE OF TROUT CREEK'S TRIBUTARIES - IS THE LARGEST PRODUCER OF PLACER GOLD WITHIN THE DISTRICT. THE NEXT MOST PRODUCTIVE PLACERS ARE ON DEEP CREEK. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit GOLD RECOVERED FROM WINDFALL CREEK WAS EXCEPTIONALLY PURE. PLACERS WITHIN TROUT CREEK DISTRICT ARE INTIMATELY ASSOCIATED WITH NEARBY LODE DEPOSITS.
Deposit The Deposit ID 10010239 of the same name, Trout Creek Placer Mine is located 62 mi. north in Sanders County just south of the town Trout Creek.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 20-DEC-1996 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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