1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Rochester - Camp Cr. Divide Placer

Past Producer in Madison county in Montana, United States with commodity Gold
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. 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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013915
MRDS ID D010474
Record type Site
Current site name Rochester - Camp Cr. Divide Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.50366, 45.69296 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 10.0 MI N65E OF MELROSE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madison(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wickiup Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Hole(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Madison

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 002S 007W 05 W2 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • DIVIDE BETWEEN CAMP CR., ROCHESTER CR. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

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) Quartzofeldspathic gneiss
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Melrose (Camp Creek) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS IN GOLD REPORTEDLY RECOVERED IN LATE 1800S OR EARLY 1900S.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 85

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LOW SADDLE ON DIVIDE IS REMNANT OF ANCIENT VALLEY FORMERLY DRAINING SOUTH FROM CAMP CR AREA ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-83 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site