Dry Gulch Placer

Past Producer in Deer Lodge county in Montana, 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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019679
MRDS ID DC11117
Record type Site
Current site name Dry Gulch Placer
Alternate or previous names Dry Creek Placer, Modesty Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.95312, 46.26183 (WGS84)
Relative position S FORK (DRY) OF MODESTY CREEK FOR MORE THAN 1 MILE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Deer Lodge(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Powell(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)

Federal lands

Beaverhead-Deerlodge 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 Deer Lodge

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 006N 011W 22,23,26,27 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LAT. AND LONG CONFLUENCE OF DRY AND MODESTY CREEKS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1961)

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
    Rock unit name Unsorted Glacial Gravels
    Rock description Unsorted Glacial Gravels
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.95312, 46.26183

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 1609.3M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Flint Creek Range Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCED 21 YEARS BETWEEN 1911-1940 ?

Comments on the workings information

  • WATER FOR PLACER OPERATIONS FROM SYSTEM OF DITCHES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM NO 26, P. 25, 26.

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 84, P. 30, 33.

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM NO 5, P. 22.

  • Production

    MBMG MEM NO 26

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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