Rivers Creek Mine

Producer in Mineral county in Montana, United States with commodities Lead, Silver
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021351
MRDS ID DC15767
Record type Site
Current site name Rivers Creek Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.44684, 47.35043 (WGS84)
Elevation 1097
Relative position APPROX. 3 MI SW OF HAUGAN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

McGee Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wallace(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Clark Fork(hydrologic unit)

Pend Oreille(hydrologic accounting unit)

Kootenai-Pend Oreille-Spokane(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Lolo 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 018N 030W 05 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • APPROX LOCATION, ON RIVERS CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.44684, 47.35043

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name St. Regis - Saltese District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Charles L. Kannegaard, Ray And Charles Minnick
    Home office Box 386, Medical Lake, Wa. 99022

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS BEING DEVELOPED IN 1972 . DEVELOPMENT WAS CONTINUING IN 1977 .

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LAWSON, D. C., 1973 , DIRECTORY OF MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1972 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 88 , P. 18 .

  • Deposit

    LAWSON, D. C., 1978 , DIRECTORY OF MINING ENTERPRISES FOR 1977 : MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 107 , P. 16 .

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 95, P. 20

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 100

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1975 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1979 Rojstaczer, Stuart A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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