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Mill and Clear Creeks Placer

Past Producer in Deer Lodge 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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011766
MRDS ID D006886
Record type Site
Current site name Mill and Clear Creeks Placer
Related records 10220470

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.93979, 46.07489 (WGS84)
Relative position 6 KM S OF ANACONDA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Deer Lodge(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Anaconda South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Deer Lodge

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 004N 011W 21,22,23,26,27,28 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LAT. LONG. CONFLUENCE OF MILL AND CLEAR CREEKS.

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) -112.93979, 46.07489
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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 Anaconda Area

Comments on the production information

  • MOST PRODUCTION FROM CLEAR CREEK

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 25, 26.

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 5, P. 22.

  • Production

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 26.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CREEK AND BENCH PLACERS
Deposit GOLD FROM VEINS OPENED BY THE OLIVE MAY, SPAIN AND OTHER SMALLER VEINS IN THE VICINITY. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

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