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Basin and Quartz Creek Placers

Past Producer in Granite county in Montana, United States with commodities Sapphire, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10305433
MAS/MILS ID 0300390160
Record type Site
Current site name Basin and Quartz Creek Placers
Alternate or previous names Basin Gulch, Quartz Gulch, Philipsburg Mining Distric

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -113.59983, 46.30489 (WGS84)
Elevation 1810
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cornish Gulch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Flint-Rock(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 006 N 017 W 04 NESENW Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sapphire Tertiary
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -113.59983, 46.30489
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • SAPPHIRES WERE FOUND IN SLUICE BOXES WITH THE RECOVERY OF OF PLACER GOLD, BUT NO ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO RECOVER THEM. QUARTZ GULCH AND BASIN GULCH CONVERGE INTO EUREKA GULCH WHICH FLOWS INTO ROCK CREEK. THE GULCHES WERE PATENTED FROM THEIR MOUTHS TO THEIR HEADWATERS, BUT 3 CLAIMS ON THE HEADWATER AREA OF QUARTZ CREEK WERE DEEDED BACK TO THE US FOREST SERVICE IN 1965.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Rock Creek District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Margery Metesh
    Interest 100
    Home office Montana
    Year 1987

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MONT. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. MEMOIR 26, 1948, P. 34.

  • Deposit

    THE WALLACE MINER, V. 87, NO. 10, MAR. 10, 1988, P. 4.

  • Deposit

    MONTANA STANDARD, V. 112, NO. 274, FEB. 29, 1988, P. 8.

  • Deposit

    PHILLIPSBURG MAIL, FEB. 25, 1988.

  • Deposit

    PHILLIPSBURG MAIL, FEB. 4, 1988.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 5-89, 1989, P. 17, 18.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 03-MAR-98 Schmauch, Steven W. U.S. Bureau of Mines

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