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Bear Gulch 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10173383
MAS/MILS ID 0300430553
Record type Site
Current site name Bear Gulch Placer

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -112.47869, 46.0113 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Silver Bow(county)

Montana(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Elk Park Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Butte North(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Montana Silver Bow

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Montana Principal 003 N 007 W 16 C Montana

Comments on the location information

  • The reference needs to be checked for this location. Original county name was Jefferson. However, lat/long plots 2.6 km inside adjacent Silver Bow county. PLSS and UTM coordinates agree with this location. The location is amidst the Butte mine tailings. No nearby Bear Gulch feature found in geonames. Bear Gulch exists much farther north in Jefferson county but there is little mining activity in the area and the nearest mines use a different reference. Another Bear Gulch is found to the south in Madison county and several records have the name Bear Gulch Placer but these records also use a different reference. So county name was changed to SIlver Bow but the reference should be checked.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) Granitic rock
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MONTANA BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 100

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 12-FEB-1997 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines
Editor 17-NOV-2008 Schruben, Paul U.S. Geological Survey Fixed lat/long - county disagreement.

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

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