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Seven Mile Creek Placer

Past Producer in Lewis and Clark 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. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013229
MRDS ID D009415
Record type Site
Current site name Seven Mile Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Sevenmile Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.05588, 46.62879 (WGS84)
Relative position EMPTYING INTO TENMILE CREEK 0.5 MILE NORTH OF HELENA FAIR GROUNDS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lewis and Clark(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Scratchgravel Hills(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Elliston(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Missouri(hydrologic unit)

Upper Missouri(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri-Marias(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Lewis and Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 010N;010N;011N;011N 004W;005W;004W;005W 04,05,09,10,11,13;01,02,03;31,32;36 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LAT LONG ARE ON MOUTH OF SEVENMILE CREEK. PLACER WORKS CONTINUE FROM ITS MOUTH TO GREENHORN.

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) -112.05588, 46.62879
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Boulder Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Scratchgravel Quartz Monzonite Stock

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Scratchgravel Hills District

Comments on the production information

  • SEVENMILE CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES PRODUCED $1200000 PRE 1933.

Comments on the workings information

  • SLUICING

Reference information

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General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DOWNSTREAM FROM WHERE THE HELENA-AUSTIN ROAD CROSSES STREAM TO ITS MOUTH APPEARS TO BE A LIKELY AREA TO TEST FOR DREDGING. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

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