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Running Creek Placer Occurrence

Occurrence in Elbert county in Colorado, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011670
MRDS ID D006747
Record type Site
Current site name Running Creek Placer Occurrence

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -104.59362, 39.61444 (WGS84)
Elevation 1958
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 0.25 MILE N 20 E FROM ELIZABETH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Arapahoe(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Watkins SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denver East(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle South Platte-Cherry Creek(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Elbert

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
6th Principal 008S 064W 07 SE Colorado

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION APPROXIMATED FROM DESBOROUGH AND OTHERS' (1970) MAP OF SEDIMENT SAMPLE LOCALITIES. SITE COULD BE SAME AS DC 04511. ELEV AND LAT-LONG GIVEN ARE FOR APPROX CENTER SE SEC 07. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1974)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • AU-AG AMALGAM PROBABLY IS CONTAMINATION FROM OLD PLACER OPERATIONS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result SEE TABLE UNDER GENERAL COMMENTS

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Rock unit name Piney Creek Alluvium;Post-Piney Creek Alluvium
    Rock description Piney Creek Alluvium;Post-Piney Creek Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -104.59362, 39.61444
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Denver Basin
Type of structure Local
Structure description Denver Basin

Ore body information

  • General form LENS OR POD

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alluvial Valley Fill

Comments on the geologic information

  • GOLD BELIEVED TO HAVE OCCURRED AS FOSSIL PLACERS IN CASTLE ROCK CONGLOMERATE, SUBSEQUENTLY ERODED FROM THAT AND RECONCENTRATED IN HOLOCENE ALLUVIUM DOWNSTREAM.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Elizabeth Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • THIS WAS SEDIMENT SAMPLE SITE, BUT PLACERING LIKELY WAS DONE ELSEWHERE ALONG CREEK.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DESBOROUGH, G.A., RAYMOND, W.H., AND SOULE, COURTNEY, 1970, PLACER GOLD OF UNIQUE FINENESS IN DOUGLAS AND ELBERT COUNTIES, COLORADO: USGS PROF. PAPER 700-D, P. D134-D139.

  • Deposit

    PARKER, B.H., JR., 1974, GOLD PLACERS OF COLORADO: COLORADO SCHOOL MINES QUART., V. 69, NO. 3, P. 45-57.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1981 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1983 Schwochow, Stephen D. Colorado Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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