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Beaver Creek Basin Placer

Occurrence in Idaho county in Idaho, United States with commodities Gold, Iron, Titanium, Phosphorus-Phosphates
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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 10071601
MRDS ID W015087
MAS/MILS ID 0160490642
Record type Site
Current site name Beaver Creek Basin Placer
Alternate or previous names Hand Camp

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.30156, 45.22958 (WGS84)
Elevation 1737
Relative position 7 MI NNE OF BIG CREEK R.S.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Idaho(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warren(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Elk City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Middle Fork Salmon(hydrologic unit)

Salmon(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Payette National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Idaho

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 022N 009E 24 SE Idaho

Comments on the location information

  • Area Along Beaver Creek Extending 1.5 Mi N And .5 Mi S From Confluence Of Hand Creek Land Status Value Calculated 7-94 Using GIS Overlay Analysis With USFS Land Ownership Boundaries, 1:126,720 Scale.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Iron Tertiary
Titanium Critical Tertiary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Eight Test Pits Were Dug In The Immediate Area, And Two Others Were Dug 0.8 Kilometer Above And 1.2 Kilometers Below Mapped Area. Pits Averaged 2.0 M. In Depth; Gold Was Found From Top To Bottom; With A Maximum Of 1.8 Cents Gold Per Cubic Meter.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Apatite Ore
Gold Ore
Ilmenite Ore

Analytical data

Result UP TO 1.4 CENT AU/CY AND AVG OF 4.65 LB BLACK SANDS/CY
Result GOLD VALUES BASED ON $47.85/TOZ

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.30156, 45.22958
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 3218.6M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1895
Discoverer J. M. Hand

Mining district

District name Ramey Ridge District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest
Area name Payette National Forest
Ownership category National Primitive Area
Area name Idaho Primitive Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Cater, F. W., And Others, 1973, Mineral Resources Of The Idaho Primitive Area And Vicinity, Idaho: USGS Bulletin 1304, P. 118

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit May Be 4 Million Cy Gravel In Basin

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1977 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1993 Cookro, Terry U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 25-NOV-1983 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

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