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Mc Farland's Placer

Past Producer in Granite county in Montana, United States with commodities Gold, Mercury
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019770
MRDS ID DC11437
Record type Site
Current site name Mc Farland's Placer
Alternate or previous names Gold Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.06563, 46.46711 (WGS84)
Relative position ON GOLD CREEK 0.7 KM W OF THE JUNCTION OF S GOLD AND GOLD CREEKS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pikes Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 008N 012W 11 SE OF NE Montana

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1971)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result $16-17/OZ
Result DIRT CARRIES $0.40/CY AU (1913)
Result 790 FINE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.06563, 46.46711
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Royal Stock

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Richest Dirt On Bedrock

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1897
Year of first production 1896
Production years 1896-1907

Mining district

District name Rose Mountain (Gold Creek) District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • SLUICING AND BLASTING OF LARGE BOULDERS, 1939 A STATION WASHING PLANT WAS ERECTED.DRAG-LINE AND BULLDOZER.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM NO 26, P. 35, 40

  • Deposit

    USGS PP 78, P. 263-4

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM NO 5, P. 23

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 978, P. 93-4.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COARSE, NUGGETS WEIGHING MORE THAN 10 OZ. ONE NUGGET WAS 24 OZ.
Deposit LARGE BOULDERS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

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