Cable Placer

Past Producer in Deer Lodge county in Montana, United States with commodity Gold
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10269247
MAS/MILS ID 0300230047
Record type Site
Current site name Cable Placer
Alternate or previous names Cable Mountain Placer

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -113.20311, 46.20159 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Deer Lodge(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Clark Fork(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 Deer Lodge

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 005 N 013 W 10 SESENE Montana

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -113.20311, 46.20159

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1988
Mining method Alluvial Mining
Year of first production 1988

Mining district

District name Cable Mountain

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Cable Mountain Mining, Inc
    Interest 100
    Home office Montana
    Year 1988
    First year 1988

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 610, 1968, P149

  • Deposit

    ALSO LOCATED IN SEC 11,14,23

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 14-APR-98 Buckingham, David A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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