Kelley Creek Placer

Prospect in Custer county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Mercury, Uranium, Titanium, Zirconium, REE
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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10070994
MRDS ID W014161
MAS/MILS ID 0160370385
Record type Site
Current site name Kelley Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Kelly Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.92654, 44.27158 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position 4 MI NNE OF STANLEY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Custer(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Basin Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

White Cloud Peaks(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Challis(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Salmon(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Salmon-Challis 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 Idaho Custer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 011N 013E 22 Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Mercury Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary
Titanium Critical Tertiary
Zirconium Critical Tertiary
REE Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Brannerite Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Euxenite Ore
Garnet Ore
Gold Ore
Ilmenite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Monazite Ore
Rutile Ore
Sphene Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Rock unit name Alluvium
    Rock description Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.92654, 44.27158

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Idaho Batholith
Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Zone Striking N 65 Deg E

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Bed; Partially Following A Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1870
Discoverer Lake And Moore.

Mining district

District name Stanley District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Challis National Forest

Comments on development

  • 14 Claims

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Choate, Raoul, 1962, Geology And Ore Deposits Of The Stanley Area: Idaho Bureau Of Mines And Geology Pamphlet 126, 120 P

  • Deposit

    U.S. Bureau Of Mines Open-File Report MLA 6-91, 1991, Table A-3, No. 374, P. 193.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1975 Yett, Jay R.; Miller, Pat U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 01-MAR-1995 McHugh, Edward L. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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