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Pineau Placer Mine

Past Producer in Granite 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. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098044
MRDS ID DC09396
Record type Site
Current site name Pineau Placer Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.0648, 46.46017 (WGS84)
Relative position 1.6 KM N OF RAINBOW LAKE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Granite(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pikes Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Philipsburg(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

Beaverhead-Deerlodge 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 Granite

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 008N 012W 11,12 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • LAT LONG ARE ON CENTER OF PINEAU MINE ON PIKES PEAK QUAD

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) -113.0648, 46.46017
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Royal Stock

Comments on the geologic information

  • AU WAS PRIMARILY ERODED FROM ROSE MOUNTAIN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Rose Mountain (Gold Creek) District

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1935 A 70000 CY PIT WAS DUG.

Comments on development

  • 1956 PINEAU PLACER SEC. 11, T08N, R12W, WAS OWNED AND OPERATED BY MACINTOSH MASTERS MINING CO., GOLDCREEK, MONT.; 1978 IN SEC. 12, T08N, R12W, WAS OWNED BY ANDREW MALCOLM, DEER LODGE, MONT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 978, P. 93-4.

  • Deposit

    USFS MAP, DEER LODGE N. FOREST, 1953.

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 10, P. 23.

  • Deposit

    MBMG BULL 109, P. 55

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit UPPER LAYER OF LATE GLACIAL DRIFT AND A LOWER LAYER OF INTERMEDIATE GLACIAL DRIFT. A LAYER OF RUSTY GOLD-BEARING GRAVEL OF 1-12FT THICK IS IN A DISCONTINUOUS LAYER BENEATH INTERMEDIATE GLACIAL DRIFT. VERY COARSE AU, ONE NUGGET WEIGHED 27OZ.

Reporter information

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

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