Sunrise Creek Placer

Past Producer in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodity Gold

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Public Land Survey System information
Commodities
Materials information
Host and associated rocks
Nearby scientific data
Geologic structures
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Land status
Ownership information
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10010244
MRDS ID	D003828
Record type	Site
Current site name	Sunrise Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-114.88737, 47.04571 (WGS84)
Elevation	1652
Relative position	10 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
Montana Principal	015N	026W	21		Montana

Comments on the location information

ON SUNRISE CREEK

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 > Sand and Gravel

Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1)	-114.88737, 47.04571	ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure	Regional
Structure description	Nw Striking Faults And Folds

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name	Sunrise District

Land status

Ownership category	Private

Ownership information

Type Owner-Operator

Owner C And H Co.

Type	Owner-Operator
Owner	C And H Co.

Comments on development

DEVELOPMENT OCCURRED IN THE MID-1970S. INACTIVE AS OF 1977 .

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	D003828

Bibliographic references

Deposit

LAWSON, D. C., 1978 , DIRECTORY OF MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1977 : MONTANA BUR MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL 107 , P. 25 .
Deposit

HARRISON, J. E., AND OTHERS, 1974 , PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF PART OF THE WALLACE 1:250000 SHEET, IDAHO-MONTANA: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPT. 74 - 37 .

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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