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High Ore Creek Placer

Past Producer in Jefferson 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 10019419
MRDS ID DC10000
Record type Site
Current site name High Ore Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.20366, 46.2624 (WGS84)
Relative position MOUTH OF HIGH ORE CREEK IS 3.5 MILES EAST OF BASIN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Jefferson(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Thompson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Butte(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Boulder(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management MT)

Bureau of Land Management MT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Jefferson

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 006N;007N 005W;005W 01,02,11,14,15;36 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LAT LONG ARE ON THE MOUTH OF CREEK. CLAIMS EXTEND FROM THE MOUTH TO AN AREA A LITTLE BEYOND CLAIMS WORKED BY THE COMET MINE.

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) Granitic rock
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Basin (Cataract, Comet) District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 16, P. 14-15.

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM NO 26, P. 43, 49

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 428, P. 52.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOST OF VALLEY IS NARROW AND STEEP, LARGE BOULDERS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1980 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

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