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Dyce Creek Placer

Past Producer in Beaverhead 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. 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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019757
MRDS ID DC11392
Record type Site
Current site name Dyce Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Dyer Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.03617, 45.25712 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 10 MILES SE OF POLARIS., Includes East, West, And Main Fork Of Dyce Creek.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaverhead(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Polaris(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salmon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaverhead(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Beaverhead

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 006S;007S 012W 02,11,14,15 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • INCLUDES EAST, WEST AND MAIN FORK OF DYCE CR. ; 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) -113.03617, 45.25712
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 1.22M
    Width 7.62M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1868

Mining district

District name Baldy Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 8.

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 85, P. 168.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit EARLY PRODUCTION FROM DYCE CREEK AND MAY CREEK BY SLICING. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-74 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-82 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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