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Huddleson Placer

Prospect in Idaho county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Titanium, Iron
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10093617
MRDS ID W015396
MAS/MILS ID 0160490394
Record type Site
Current site name Huddleson Placer
Alternate or previous names Salmon River Placer Co., South Fork Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.51875, 45.35431 (WGS84)
Elevation 640
Relative position 13.75 MI SW OF DIXIE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Idaho(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Burgdorf Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warren(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Elk City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Salmon(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Payette 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 Idaho Idaho

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 023N 008E 07 Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Titanium Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Samples Showed Gold Values From Trace To 66.7 Cents Per Cubic Meter. Gold Value Based On A Price Of $1.54 Per Gram. Samples Were Taken From Pits And Trenches On 6.1 Hectares. Estimated Volume Of Gravel Material On Site Is 688,140 Cubic Meters.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result TRACE TO 51.0 CENTS AU/CY
Result GOLD VALUES BASED ON $47.85/TOZ

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Belt Supergroup
    Rock description Belt Supergroup-Gneiss;Granitic And Volcanic Gravels
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.51875, 45.35431
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Old Accretion Bars

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name South Fork Salmon River Addition

Land status

Ownership category Private
Ownership category National Primitive Area
Area name Idaho Primitive Area

Comments on development

  • Econ.Com: 0.9 Lb Black Sands/Cy

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Cater, F. W., And Others, 1973, Mineral Resources Of The Idaho Primitive Area And Vicinity, Idaho: USGS Bulletin 1304, 431 P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 15 Acres, 900,000 C.Y.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1974 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 25-NOV-1983 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

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