Tower Creek Placer

Past Producer in Lemhi county in Idaho, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10013558
MRDS ID D009921
Record type Site
Current site name Tower Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Boyle Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.87872, 45.33049 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219
Relative position 10.4 MI N5E OF SALMON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lemhi(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bird Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salmon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Salmon-Panther(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Lemhi

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 023N 022E 17,08 N2 (17); SE (08) Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • ALONG TOWER CR. SPECIFIC LOC. UNKNOWN. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1978)

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 > Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvial deposits.

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 North Fork Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MIN RES OF US, 1929, FOR YEAR-1928

  • Production

    MIN RES US, 1929

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1982 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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