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Windfall Creek Placer

Producer in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodity 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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107920
MRDS ID D004084
Record type Site
Current site name Windfall Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.92265, 47.03627 (WGS84)
Elevation 1335
Relative position 11 MI S OF SUPERIOR

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
015N 026W 20 SW OF SW OF SW Montana

Comments on the location information

  • OTHER PLACERS IN SECTIONS 19, 28, 29, 33.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOLD WAS ALMOST PURE, PAID $20.20 BASED ON OLD PRICE OF $20.67.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1872

Mining district

District name Trout Creek District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FOREST SERVICE FILES, MISSOULA, MONT.

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 26, 1948, P. 101-102.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS PLACER AND ASSOCIATED PLACERS ON WINDFALL CREEK HAVE BEEN THE LARGEST PRODUCERS OF PLACER GOLD IN THE DISTRICT. ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1980 Chesson, Sharon A. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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