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Lower Moose Creek Placer

Past Producer in Silver Bow 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097864
MRDS ID D009992
Record type Site
Current site name Lower Moose Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.68922, 45.72018 (WGS84)
Elevation 1676
Relative position 3.4 MI S 55 E OF DIVIDE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Melrose(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Big Hole(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 001N 009W 26,27,32,33 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • 1 PLACER GROUP IS 1 MI ABOVE AND BELOW LOC. PT. ANOTHER IS FOR .5 MI E OF CONFLUENCE WITH BIG HOLE RIVER ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

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 > Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.68922, 45.72018
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Moose Creek District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • MIN. SUR. 4334 (HOMESTAKE PLACER, SECT. 26), 7323 (MARY PLACER, SECT 27-26), 9781 (MOOSE CR. PLACER, SECT 32, 33) PATENTED CLAIM GROUPS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 32, P. 56-59, PL.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1983 Loen, Jeffrey S. (Pearson, Robert C.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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