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Fish Creek Placer

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 10107984
MRDS ID D009656
Record type Site
Current site name Fish Creek Placer
Alternate or previous names Highland Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.45227, 45.79157 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position 3 MI E OF BUTTE HIGHLANDS MINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pipestone Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Dillon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jefferson(hydrologic unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Missouri Headwaters(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(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 Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 001N 007W 27,28,34,35,36 Montana

Comments on the location information

  • AT LEAST 1 MI ABOVE AND BELOW LOCATION POINT. ; 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

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1866

Mining district

District name Highland (Fish Creek) District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on development

  • RICHEST DEPOSITS EXHAUSTED DURING BOOM PERIOD (1866-1876). INTERMITTENT WORK CONTINUED, ESPECIALLY 1904-1948.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MBMG MEM 26, P. 136-142

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1982 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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