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Russell Placer Claim

Past Producer in Sanders 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010241
MRDS ID D003823
Record type Site
Current site name Russell Placer Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.4324, 47.86598 (WGS84)
Elevation 866
Relative position APPROX. 7 1/4 MI W-NW OF TROUT CREEK MONT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanders(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Seven Point Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Thompson Falls(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Kootenai 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 Sanders

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 024N 030W 03 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE ON VERMILION RIVER

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 > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.4324, 47.86598
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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 Cabinet District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner B. Russell

Comments on the production information

  • IN 1946 RECOVERIES AVERAGED 23 CENTS PER CUBIC YARD

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THE FACT THAT THE SUCTION DREDGE WAS ABLE TO MAKE RECOVERIES AVERAGING 23 CENTS PER CUBIC YARD OF GRAVEL INDICATES THAT CONSIDERABLE GRAVEL REMAINS UNWORKED ABOVE AND BELOW THE CLAIM.

Comments on development

  • A BECKER-HOPKINS TYPE SUCTION DREDGE WAS ASSEMBLED IN 1946 , BUT WAS DISMANTLED AND MOVED THAT SAME YEAR. THE REASON FOR NOT CONTINUING OPERATIONS WAS REPORTED TO BE THAT THE INTAKE OF THE SUCTION LINE WAS SO OFTEN CLOGGED BY COBBLES THAT THE OPERATIONS WERE NOT PROFITABLE. ; ECON.COM: IT HAS BEEN STATED THAT MUCH OF THE HILLSIDE ALLUVIUM ADJOINING THIS CLAIM CARRIES SUFFICIENT GOLD FOR PROFITABLE WORKING IT COULD BE BROUGHT TO THE WATER OR IF WATER COULD BE BROUGHT TO IT CHEAPLY ENOUGH.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LYDEN, C. J., 1948 , THE GOLD PLACERS OF MONTANA: MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , PP. 136 - 138

  • Production

    LYDEN, C. J., 1948 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY MEM. 26 , P. 136 , 138 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD IN THE PLACER GRAVELS OF VERMILLION CREEK HAS BEEN DERIVED PRIMARILY FROM QUARTZ VEINS CARRYING FREE GOLD. GOLD IN CREEK IS PROBABLY OF THREE AGES: THAT WHICH FORMED PLACERS PRIOR TO PLEISTOCENE GLACIATION, THAT WHICH FORMED DURING THE PLEISTOCENE ICE ADVANCE AND THAT WHICH HAS FORMED DUE TO WEATHERING OF THE VEINS SINCE THE ICE SHEET WITHDRAWAL.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Rojstaczer, Stuart A. U.S. Geological Survey

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