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Gold Canyon Creek Placer

Past Producer in Powell 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. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019788
MRDS ID DC11515
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Canyon Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.3995, 46.6199 (WGS84)
Relative position THE HEAD OF GOLD CANYON CREEK IS 7.0 KM NNW OF ELLISTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Powell(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Elliston(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Elliston(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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Powell

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 010N;010N 006W;007W 18;13,14 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • A TRIBUTARY OF N. TROUT CREEK, IT HAS BEEN MINED FROM ITS HEAD DOWN STREAM TO THE FLAT LAND.

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) -112.3995, 46.6199
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Boulder Batholith

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1880
Production years 1890-1911

Comments on the workings information

  • DRIFT MINES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 89, 126.

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 842, P. 114.

  • Production

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 126

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1981 Wise, Kristine K. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

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