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Welcome Creek Placer

Past Producer in Granite 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011780
MRDS ID D006904
Record type Site
Current site name Welcome Creek Placer
Related records 10245773

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.70232, 46.56656 (WGS84)
Relative position WELCOME CREEK CONVERGES WITH ROCK CREEK 14 MI S OF CLINTON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grizzly Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Missoula East(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Flint-Rock(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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 009N;010N 017W;017W 02,03,04;32,33 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LAT. LONG. CONFLUENCE OF WELCOME AND ROCK CREEK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1959)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result 920 FINE FROM 2 SOURCES

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
    Rock unit name Glacial Gravel
    Rock description Glacial Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.70232, 46.56656
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Gold Associated With Magnetite, Hematite And Limonite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1891
Year of first production 1875
Year of last production 1941

Mining district

District name Welcome Creek District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • 1931-1939 SMALL AMOUNTS OF AU WERE RECOVERED

Comments on the workings information

  • SLUICING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 35, 36.

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 5, P. 23.

  • Production

    MBMG MEM NO 26, P. 36

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ON BARS AND STREAM GRAVEL

Reporter information

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

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