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Paddy Flat Placer Deposit

Occurrence in Valley county in Idaho, United States with commodities REE, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum
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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. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011564
MRDS ID D006577
Record type Site
Current site name Paddy Flat Placer Deposit
Alternate or previous names Cosumnes Placer Deposit
Related records 10144743

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.96288, 44.79767 (WGS84)
Elevation 1597
Relative position W AND S OF THE PADDY FLAT GUARD STATION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Valley(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Paddy Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pistol Creek(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork Payette(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Valley

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 017N 004E 34;26;27;28 Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • THE CLAIMS ROUGHLY COVER THE LOW GROUND COMPRISING PADDY FLAT. THEY CONFLICT WITH THE HALF MOON NO. 1 AND NO. 2 IN SECTION 34

Commodities

Commodity Importance
REE Critical Primary
Niobium (Columbium) Critical Tertiary
Tantalum Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Monazite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.96288, 44.79767
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discoverer Raymond M. Carrey

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Cosumnes Gold Dredging Co., Inc.
    Home office 465 California St., San Francisco, Ca
  • Type Owner
    Owner C. V. Loomis, George Denison, Raymond Carrey
    Home office Weiser, Id.
    First year 1953

Comments on development

  • D.M.E.A. DOCKET NO. 2265 AND CONTRACT NO. IDM E351 (1953)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COMMODITY FILES, U.S.G.S., SPOKANE WA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE D.M.E.A DOCKET NO. 2265 AND CONTRACT NO. IDM E 351 (1953) ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Lewis, Reed S. (Orris, Greta J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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